Chamba homestay receives Responsible Tourism Award

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

The “Gold Award” in the Sustainable Leadership Guesthouse category of the Outlook Indian Responsible Tourism Awards (IRTA)-2023 was presented to NotOnMap H2O House, located in Chaminoo hamlet of Chamba district.

The award ceremony was held at Ooty, Tamil Nadu. Around 20 states from around the country participated.

Tamil Nadu Tourism Minister K Ramachandran presented the award to Renu Sharma, owner of H2O House, and Manuj Sharma, co-founder of NotOnMap.

H2O House is located around 12 kilometres from the old Chamba town at the junction of the Sal and Hul nullahs. It is organised in collaboration with members of the local community and self-help groups.

“Working to develop the rural communities by using travel as a tool has been our mission. And we are grateful that we are able to achieve a positive impact through our work at NotOnMap,” commented Kumar Anubhav, founder of NotOnMap.

“NotOnMap is working to promote rural, responsible, sustainable and community tourism in order to develop community livelihood,” Anubhav said.

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