Tourism in Nagaland is on growing stage with its glorious past and rich heritage and culture. For the adventurous and therefore the intrepid, Nagaland is a perfect place for trekking, hiking , jungle camping and offers limitless exploration possibilities in its lush and verdant sub-tropical rain forests which also are a treasure trove of a plethora of medicinal plants. Above and beyond tourists also can experience a very ethnic Naga Culture with the simplest local brews served in large bamboo mugs and exotic local cuisines which is far celebrated here.

Nagaland has many advantages during this sector over its north-eastern neighbours. For a start, Nagaland has had a practice of hosting tourists for many years . With the partial lifting of ILP in recent years during Hornbill Festival, Domestic tourists and visitors not need travel permits (as they are doing in another states), and therefore the security situation has improved substantially.

The location of the region and its richness in biodiversity has become an area of attraction for tourism industry. Encompassing hills, mountains, plains and plateau, the region has many cultural groups and communities with varied cultural background and biodiversity hotspot where it lies which may easily attract tourists from the planet over.
Life in rural areas is extremely engaging, more colourful and weird compared to what travellers are wont to seeing. The scenery is equally engrossing.

Festival: Nagaland may be a cultural mosaic of diverse multi-ethnicity sprung up by the several tribes that inhibit the State. Each community celebrates its myriad festivals revolving round the agrarian calendar that creates Nagaland by default, a land of festivals.

Nagaland Hornbill Festival: Festival of Festivals encompasses through collective celebration the color and vibrant elements of all the tribal festivities and provides a glimpse of Naga life to titillate cultural sensibilities. The annual Hornbill Festival is held for 10 days, 1st -10th December. It draws all the tribes and sub-tribes of Nagaland to the foothills below the lofty spurs of towering Mt. Japfu wherein lies the Naga Heritage Village, Kisama-the venue of the Festival.