Dehli, India is the place to go for a positive bed and breakfast revolution...
Since 2006 people have been able to register their own houses as individual "bed and breakfasts" and this story follows one of these owners. Ajay inherited his sizable plot after his parents died. Separated from his wife, Ajay did not want to wander around an "big empty home", but was a self-confessed novice to the hospitality business.
He has learned fast. Since they opened their home in the upmarket Nizamuddin colony, Ajay and his 14-year-old daughter live upstairs, while downstairs sees a constant flow of tourists and company executives...
The rooms, which start at 3,750 Rs (£47) a night including breakfast, come with private bathrooms, air conditioning and Wi-Fi. All have marble floors and there's fresh bedding and towels every day. Less than 100 metres away from the front door lies the red stone grandeur of the tomb of Abdul Rahim Khan-e-Khana, a Mughal poet...
The views of us here at GTI that community based tourism such as this is the best chance we have for on-going sustainability, so we think projects like this are the future...
Find out more at http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/nov/10/delhi-bed-and-breakfast-india
Barticus.
Since 2006 people have been able to register their own houses as individual "bed and breakfasts" and this story follows one of these owners. Ajay inherited his sizable plot after his parents died. Separated from his wife, Ajay did not want to wander around an "big empty home", but was a self-confessed novice to the hospitality business.
He has learned fast. Since they opened their home in the upmarket Nizamuddin colony, Ajay and his 14-year-old daughter live upstairs, while downstairs sees a constant flow of tourists and company executives...
The rooms, which start at 3,750 Rs (£47) a night including breakfast, come with private bathrooms, air conditioning and Wi-Fi. All have marble floors and there's fresh bedding and towels every day. Less than 100 metres away from the front door lies the red stone grandeur of the tomb of Abdul Rahim Khan-e-Khana, a Mughal poet...
The views of us here at GTI that community based tourism such as this is the best chance we have for on-going sustainability, so we think projects like this are the future...
Find out more at http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/nov/10/delhi-bed-and-breakfast-india
Barticus.
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