Tourism is a very fast developing sector and there are various studies going on parallelly to enhance the revenue from the vertical. The significance of the local communities in tourism cannot be ignored at all, since they are the ones driving tourism in the first place. The book Community Involvement in Tourism Development emphasizes on involving the local communities in tourism practices and provides ways in which this can be incorporated. It also enlists the challenges that come with it and how they can be tackled for good results.