Reflections

Help Tourism is an award winning tourism agency headquartered in Siliguri. It was founded in 1991 by a group of young men who had a vision of eco tourism which was rooted in the local ecology and wanted to involve the local stakeholders in the process of development. One of the founders of this unique movement was Raj Basu who I am proud to call my friend. Raj has been instrumental in guiding this group to the success story that they are today. They have received many accolades, awards from many influential tourist groups and have had the honour of being one of groups included by the National Geographic as the best adventure tourism groups in the world. They have put North Eastern India in the map of adventure tourism and they have made it possible for many well known scientists and birders to work in this area. If you look up any report of a bird watching expedition in this region, you are very likely to find that it was organised by Help Tourism. The most important part of their wor