• Prachi Agarwal
• Dr. Arunesh Parashar

More than half of population, it’s tradition, values and culture resides in its villages till today. With such diversification, most outsiders and urbanites prefer to visit in such non-urban settings. To live their lives peacefully for sometime, wanted to spend their vacation and leisure time by visiting such areas. Because till today rural areas have the potential to offer natural resources, green and blue spaces, local food, tradition, culture, festivals that reflects our ancient and beautiful pasts to revive the blessings of elders. So, to enhance visitors leisure time and their over all well-being. This study aims to conceptualise and proposed a theoretical rural model, which can be practiced as a nature-based health practice at tourism destinations. This model helps to incorporate health, nature and sustainability in the world of industrialisation. By examining the attributes of rural settings, contributes to the understanding of how rural model can be implemented as a holistic approach to health tourism.

Rural, Natural resources, Health tourism, Nature, Nature-based health tourism

"Rural-based Model: A Nature-based Health Tourism Practice at Tourism Destinations", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 6, page no.h192-h201, June-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2406720.pdf

"Rural-based Model: A Nature-based Health Tourism Practice at Tourism Destinations", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 6, page no. pph192-h201, June-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2406720.pdf