Prospects and Problems of Tourism Industry in Uttarakhand
Tourism Dimensions Innovations, Challenges & Opportunities, Edition: 1st, Chapter: 32, Publisher: INDU BOOK SERVICES, Editors: S.P. Bansal, Prashant Gautam, Sandeep Walia, pp.277-284
8 Pages Posted: 15 Nov 2017
Date Written: January 30, 2016
Abstract
The Himalayan region in India remains a popular tourist destination as it attracts massive inflow of tourist round the year. The present study is focused on Uttarakhand as it provides both adventures and pilgrimage tourism along with educational tourism which made it one of the most important regions of Himalaya in terms of tourism. The state of Uttarakhad is divided in to two divisions the North-Western division is known as Garhwal and South-Eastern division is known as Kumaon. It is a hill state with beautiful forest and snowcapped mountains and sacred pilgrimage spot which attract tourists altogether.
It is a developing state and tourism plays an important role for generating the employment opportunities which provides source of living to local community.
The tourism industry in the state creates environmental and socio economic consequences. The mountain tourism requires major concern as the massive infrastructural developmental activities are occurring for the promotion of tourism with even estimating the tourism carrying capacity. The present study is focused to understand the general framework of tourism management for understanding problem’s related to the region’s requirement with “S” curve analysis and destination discontinuity for shifting the inflow of tourists from one destination to another destination for make this region a popular spot for tourists.
Keywords: Himalayan Tourism, Management of Tourism, S Curve, Destination Discontinuity, Himalayan T-Sunami
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