Introduction:

Homestay tourism in Bangladesh is very new concept. Homestay is a house inside farm and
plantation in area which are away from the town or a city. The Homestay Program offers
learning opportunities for both tourists and the families who are seeking to broaden their
understanding about different cultures, natures and tourist places. Living with the families
will provide tourists with not only an environment to develop their language skills, but
opportunities to understand the daily life, values, and customs of the local people. People
living in those areas have converted their farm houses, heritage houses, hill cottage with a
view to accommodate the tourists. In this home stay people can live with a homely
atmosphere to get a chance to communicate with the local people who are the host of
those houses.

Objectives:

As a form of Community Based Tourism, the homestay concept is currently well accepted as
a rural development tool in our country. The homestay program can enhance local quality of
life through generation of income; support local culture, arts and business; encourages
restoration of local and historic sites; and foster nature conservation efforts through
community education. But researcher’s main objectives are:

1. To study the Prospect and possibility about homestay tourism in Bangladesh.

2. To see how the homestays tourism contribute to conserving local cultural and
natural heritage and Create a distinctive, authentic, reliable, tourist
accommodation and experience in collaboration with residence, tour operators
and other agencies
3. To suggest how the knowledge can be earned to train all homestay providers in
basic hygiene, cooking, hospitality and ensure safety and security by the GOVT,
local authority and the law enforcement force.
Methodology

Research Design

This thesis is based on theoretical research. The research involves developing the new facts
or the conclusion of the study subject through the various research methods which leads to
gain a wide range of knowledge on a specific subject.

There is no information about homestay tourism in Bangladesh. As such, the researcher has
to collect all the information with his own investigation & research. In this research the
process will be an exploratory research and the data will be primary mostly. Therefore, the
structure will be in a discipline manner.

The research data will be primary because the researcher has to collect the data by himself;
but to facilitate the research the researcher will also use some secondary information.

For primary data-

1. The researcher will be discussed with the ministry of concern Department, DC, BTB,
BPC Officer and Tourist police
2. Also discuss with local community of Coxbazar.
3. Will collect information with the house owner for data related to basic matters.
4. Will take feedback and opinion from the local and International Tourists of Coxbazar
who will be visiting Coxzbazar during the research data collection period.

For secondary data-

1. Few article, previous tourism related survey on Coxbazar, Tourism Ministry statistics
etc.
2. Website, National Newspaper, Local Newspaper, journal and tourism related books.
The researcher will take face to face interview to collect the data. This method enables to
acquire factual information, consumer evaluations, attitudes, preferences and other
information coming out during the conversation with the respondent.

Semi-structured type of questionnaire will be used to collect the required information.

Selected & printed questions will be asked the respondents. There will be open and close
ended both types of questions.

The research method will be random sampling. Researcher’s target population would be all
the people who will be visited Coxbazar during the data collection period, local community,
tourism related personnel and tourist police.

The data accuracy mostly depends on the sample size. The more sample will be taken the
more accuracy will be earned. But many factors are related with it; such as time, money,
manpower and proper facilities. Here budget, time, facilities and manpower all are low. For
that reason, the researcher has to select a minimum sample size; Such as 50.

Data analysis

In this type research, analyzing the textual data and the other multiple forms of data has
always been a challenging task for the researcher. Representing the textual data in a form of
tables, matrices and analyze it, is the challenging work in qualitative research method.
However, the thesis has analyzed by gathering detailed description of the case, facts and
classifying it and finally has generalized the data neutrally. Mostly the researcher will use
the MS Excel & SPSS software.
Conclusion

This study shows that the quality of services, which include facilities, safety aspects and
service aspects, in the Homestay Programme in Bangladesh will be contributed to the
numbers of domestic tourists coming to the homestay as well as helping to meet their
demands. All these aspects have satisfied domestic tourists and the management’s role in
this is vital. The findings from this research will create a new type of tourism concept and
also refine other studies, which focused their research on the involvement of Communities
in the Homestay Program with less concentration on the issue of tourists’. Based on the
results of this research it can be concluded that the prospect and possibility of the
Homestay Programme in Bangladesh and also find the skill and aptitude of the management
in this homestay that allowed the tourists to be satisfied with the facilities, safety and
service aspects. The results of this research will also benefit further studies in the future as
well as serve as a guideline for other researchers.