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The Garhwal Himalayas are recognized for their natural beauty as well as their rich cultural legacy and enduring folk customs. This study reveals the complex connection between culture, folk customs, and tourism in the Garhwal Himalayas by combining anthropological exploration, literary analysis, and stakeholder engagement. The introduction of the paper provides background information that highlights the region's importance as a geological wonder and a storehouse of intangible cultural assets. A thorough analysis of the literature traces the cultural development in Garhwal across time, following its deep interweaving with native beliefs, rituals, and folk traditions. The charm of these cultural components, which have evolved into the main draws for the expanding tourist influx, is highlighted in particular. The research's methodology incorporates qualitative techniques like participant observation, surveys, and interviews to give a comprehensive knowledge of the part that cultural components play in the tourism experience. The study uses cultural mapping to provide visual insights into the intricate web of traditions, cultural landmarks, and tourism attractions that define the area. The complex effect of tourism on regional culture and folk traditions is one of the study's key conclusions. The study looks at instances of cultural commodification and adaptation as tourism affects activities, posing significant issues with authenticity and morality. As the dialogue progresses, the research highlights how crucial it is to strike a balance between tourism-driven economic development and the preservation of indigenous cultural identity. The article covers numerous regulations and initiatives that have developed to protect cultural authenticity in the context of cultural preservation and sustainable tourism development. The key to ensuring cultural resilience in the face of tourism pressures appears to be collaborative initiatives including local communities, governments, and stakeholders. Through a lens that recognizes the potential for conflict between economic objectives and the requirement to preserve cultural heritage, challenges and opportunities are analyzed. Key findings are summarized in the paper's conclusion, along with suggestions for concrete applications that can be made to promote sustainable tourism practices while maintaining the integrity of Garhwali culture and folk traditions. This research paper adds to the conversation by providing a thorough analysis of how culture, folk traditions, and tourism intersect while the Garhwal Himalayas stand at a crossroads between tradition and modernity. It also provides helpful advice for maintaining cultural identity in a changing environment.

The Garhwal Himalayas are recognized for their natural beauty as well as their rich cultural legacy and enduring folk customs. This study reveals the complex connection between culture, folk customs, and tourism in the Garhwal Himalayas by combining anthropological exploration, literary analysis, and stakeholder engagement. The introduction of the paper provides background information that highlights the region's importance as a geological wonder and a storehouse of intangible cultural assets. A thorough analysis of the literature traces the cultural development in Garhwal across time, following its deep interweaving with native beliefs, rituals, and folk traditions. The charm of these cultural components, which have evolved into the main draws for the expanding tourist influx, is highlighted in particular. The research's methodology incorporates qualitative techniques like participant observation, surveys, and interviews to give a comprehensive knowledge of the part that cultural components play in the tourism experience. The study uses cultural mapping to provide visual insights into the intricate web of traditions, cultural landmarks, and tourism attractions that define the area. The complex effect of tourism on regional culture and folk traditions is one of the study's key conclusions. The study looks at instances of cultural commodification and adaptation as tourism affects activities, posing significant issues with authenticity and morality. As the dialogue progresses, the research highlights how crucial it is to strike a balance between tourism-driven economic development and the preservation of indigenous cultural identity. The article covers numerous regulations and initiatives that have developed to protect cultural authenticity in the context of cultural preservation and sustainable tourism development. The key to ensuring cultural resilience in the face of tourism pressures appears to be collaborative initiatives including local communities, governments, and stakeholders. Through a lens that recognizes the potential for conflict between economic objectives and the requirement to preserve cultural heritage, challenges and opportunities are analyzed. Key findings are summarized in the paper's conclusion, along with suggestions for concrete applications that can be made to promote sustainable tourism practices while maintaining the integrity of Garhwali culture and folk traditions. This research paper adds to the conversation by providing a thorough analysis of how culture, folk traditions, and tourism intersect while the Garhwal Himalayas stand at a crossroads between tradition and modernity. It also provides helpful advice for maintaining cultural identity in a changing environment.

The Garhwal Himalayas are recognized for their natural beauty as well as their rich cultural legacy and enduring folk customs. This study reveals the complex connection between culture, folk customs, and tourism in the Garhwal Himalayas by combining anthropological exploration, literary analysis, and stakeholder engagement. The introduction of the paper provides background information that highlights the region's importance as a geological wonder and a storehouse of intangible cultural assets. A thorough analysis of the literature traces the cultural development in Garhwal across time, following its deep interweaving with native beliefs, rituals, and folk traditions. The charm of these cultural components, which have evolved into the main draws for the expanding tourist influx, is highlighted in particular. The research's methodology incorporates qualitative techniques like participant observation, surveys, and interviews to give a comprehensive knowledge of the part that cultural components play in the tourism experience. The study uses cultural mapping to provide visual insights into the intricate web of traditions, cultural landmarks, and tourism attractions that define the area. The complex effect of tourism on regional culture and folk traditions is one of the study's key conclusions. The study looks at instances of cultural commodification and adaptation as tourism affects activities, posing significant issues with authenticity and morality. As the dialogue progresses, the research highlights how crucial it is to strike a balance between tourism-driven economic development and the preservation of indigenous cultural identity. The article covers numerous regulations and initiatives that have developed to protect cultural authenticity in the context of cultural preservation and sustainable tourism development. The key to ensuring cultural resilience in the face of tourism pressures appears to be collaborative initiatives including local communities, governments, and stakeholders. Through a lens that recognizes the potential for conflict between economic objectives and the requirement to preserve cultural heritage, challenges and opportunities are analyzed. Key findings are summarized in the paper's conclusion, along with suggestions for concrete applications that can be made to promote sustainable tourism practices while maintaining the integrity of Garhwali culture and folk traditions. This research paper adds to the conversation by providing a thorough analysis of how culture, folk traditions, and tourism intersect while the Garhwal Himalayas stand at a crossroads between tradition and modernity. It also provides helpful advice for maintaining cultural identity in a changing environment.

Meghalaya, the abode of clouds, is one of the most beautiful states in India and famous for its tourism industry. Homestay tourism has been so well-received since its inception that it is currently being employed as a strategy to reduce poverty in rural areas of various states in India. Within the East Khasi Hills district, Nongjrong is a lesser-known village that boasts breathtaking views of the sunrise, mountains, and clouds. In this piece, the author shares his observations of the Khasi villagers of Nongjrong and its sunrise, food, hospitality, architecture, neighbourhood, roads, and sustainable goods. He also discusses how he included nonverbal behaviour during his investigation and applied the photographic study approach. The primary focus of the article is on the role of rural homestay in Nongjrong village as a potential driver of tourism growth in Meghalaya. The study also investigates and talks about the health, education, children, transportation, amenities, and agriculture of Nongjrong village. Finally, the author offered workable suggestions and actions for the government, media experts, and scholars.

This is a psychological analysis of Jhumpa Lahiri's short story "Interpreter of Maladies". Jhumpa Lahiri, although born and bred in the West, writes her short stories with an Asian, especially Indian, touch. Her "Interpreter of Maladies" relates an experience a US-born Asian young woman assimilated to Western culture has with a mature English-speaking Asian man engaged in tourism. They both fail to perceive the chronic issues of family life as particular to each other. Mina and Mr Kapasi are both in the same plight as frustrated spouses in their respective arranged marriages. But they cannot be explicit to each other because of cultural barriers. So, their maladies remain unperceived by each other under the influence of their cultural orientations. Mina considers Mr Kapasi a prospective counsellor, but Mr Kapasi considers her a prospective mistress. Ultimately, their considerations prove baseless, when they are both supposed to work out a solution together for an ailing problem.

Religious tourism has a significant place in our ancient history. And it is one of the oldest form of tourism. It is also famously known as faith tourism, in which people from different parts of the world travel to religious destinations with different purposes. These purposes may be spiritual, to build cultural understanding or in the quest for meaning to different queries. The purpose of travel varies from person to person. Tourists come to Himachal Pradesh all around the year to fulfil their religious quests. They may sometimes face problems such as lack of road connectivity and issues related to transportation. Also, the religious destinations may become too overcrowded and issues may be faced related to sanitization, water availability and other basic facilities. Also, the Darshan system may become biased in which some people may be treated specially and others have to wait in rows for hours. The purpose of the present study is to identify the major challenges and problems faced by the religious tourists visiting the Devi and Shiva circuit of Himachal Pradesh. The study has been conducted on 194 religious tourists. The results of the study revealed that tourists found the availability of darshan time, overcrowding during festivals and corruption as the major challenges during their visit.

A true traveller always makes the new year better than the last year by exploring the hidden gems of India. If you call yourself a passionate traveller who loves to explore new places, understand and live new cultures and lifestyles, then in 2023 you must embark on the journey to explore northeast India, popularly known as the "Seven Sister States." To help you get started, we've put together a list of 6 must-visit offbeat tourist destinations in northeast India.

India is the most popular destination for medical tourists because of the country's excellent hospitals and health infrastructure, as well as its skilled and experienced medical staff, comfortable surroundings, and state-of-the-art medical equipment. Visakhapatnam is a popular tourist destination because of the low cost and high quality of the medical care available. The study focuses on patients from India who travel to Visakhapatnam for medical treatment. The findings show that Visakhapatnam's health tourism industry provides high-quality health care services, including effective treatments, modern facilities, secure care, a relaxing atmosphere, and privacy for patients' personal information. They also show that patients' relationships with doctors are fostered by the city's health tourism industry. The socioeconomic characteristics of travellers and their perceptions of health tourism are vastly different. Significantly, positively, and strongly linked to satisfaction are travellers' perceptions of health tourism. Medical tourists of all kinds should be encouraged to take advantage of the benefits of health tourism, which means that it must be priced affordably and aggressively advertised.

Tourism industry of any country is not only related with the economic profit of the country but it is also a way to communicate heritage, cultural, social and environmental values between two nations.  Tourism industry in India contributed 9.6 per cent in total GDP of country in 2016 with the value US $ 71.55 billion and it is third largest sector contributed in foreign exchange earnings. The estimated compound annual growth rate for direct contribution of tourism and hospitality industry to GDP for 2016-17 was 14.05 per cent. As per the report of world travel and tourism council’s economic impact 2017 forecasted contribution of tourism industry to GDP by 2027 is 147.96 billion. In 2016, 8.8 million foreign tourists arrived in India which is forecasted 15.3 million by 2025. The present study is designed to analyze the growth rate of tourism industry in India. The finding of the study suggests that Foreign Exchange Earnings (FEE) from the foreign tourists is significant for Gross Dom...

Historic areas display advanced townscape qualities that have evolved over a long period and exemplify ecologically sustainable urban model. India has attempted an improved system of sustainable planning of cities through smart city initiative. This paper investigates how the historical and cultural heritage of cities is and can be underpinned by means of smart city tools and applications. Further sharing our past in smart city initiative has the potential to promote urban tourism in a sustainable way. A main focus of this paper is on smart city Jaipur. We conclude that although potential applications and approaches abound, cultural heritage stands for a mostly unexploited asset, presenting multiple opportunities within smart city context.

Railways are significant to the development of Indian economy before World War I. This paper reviews the economic performance of railways in Colonial India. The paper describes the organization and development of the network and the productivity factor for railways before and after Indian independence. The paper highlights two key points – first, the railways influenced the Indian government and gradually the role of government increased with nationalization of railway system in India. Second, the performance and productivity of Indian railways is determined by the technological change, utilization capacity and organizational change that contribute to the economic development of the country. Perhaps, the railways increased the integration of market segment and generated more revenue when compared with other sectors.

This paper attempts to make an in-depth study of tourism, which would help in developing the course of tourism industry in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Tourism is considered as one sector that can propel growth, contribute foreign exchange, and provide employment that too to low skilled persons. One of the important dimensions of tourism is the cultural exchange among various nationalities and among the people of different states. As on one hand, tourism is seen as an economic option and on the other side the greater social and human effect. Jammu and Kashmir offers different types of tourism, which are highlighted in this paper, which type of tourism is most liked and is popular among tourists, is also presented in this paper for proper development of tourism industry in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.

The tourism Industry of India is economically important and grows rapidly. The world Travel and Tourism Council calculated that tourism generated INR 6.4 trillion or 6.6% of the nation's GDP in 2012. It supported 39.5 million Jobs, 7.7% of its total employment. The sector annual rate of 7.9% from 2013 to 2023. Countries with the fastest growing India has a large medical Tourism sector which is expected to grow at an estimated rate of 30% annually to reach about 95 billion by 2015. This paper discusses how India is emerging as a popular Tourist destination in the world, driven by the Focus innovation and creating value for tourists. It aimed change the attitude and behavior towards Foreign tourists by stressing on the aspect that a guest has been held in high esteem in India since ancient times.

With the Indian Luxury Train you travel through the untouched and colorful region of India. You sleep on board the train, enjoy the best Indian food and make many special trips along the way. Maharajas, in Hindi, means the King of the Kings, or India's "Maharaja," who has such a name on his own. Despite its novelty, the ambitious operation of the Dajun train has entered the market with the positioning of "India's most expensive luxury train". As a result of this ambitious project, the young train will be able to win successive world-class travel awards in 2010 And was hailed as one of "the most luxurious 8 train routes in the world". In 2012, it won the title of "World's Best Train" by the World Travel Awards. In just two years, it climbed the peak of the world's luxury train. The quality of service and the excellence of the route are evident to all and this is why it won the favor of Raffles International. Follow us on the train to experience the romantic Indian railway journey.

Tourism as we know is the fastest growing industry across the Globe in the modern times. It not only generates employment opportunities in a particular region or a country but also contributes spontaneously to generate foreign exchange earnings. This paper noted the remarkable growth in International tourist arrivals and international tourism receipts. It is found that the tourism activities were still concentrated in the developed nations of Europe and Americas, and Asia and the Pacific regions. Maturity of the tourism sector in India was indicated by the high tourist arrivals and tourism receipts and the steady growth rates. The remarkable growth rate in tourist arrivals and tourism receipts are attributed to the technological, economic, social, cultural, ecological, institutional and political developments of the post-World War II era. The Tourism Vision and its types outlined in this paper noted a bright future for domestic tourism in the coming years. The Ministry of Tourism designs national policies for the development and promotion of tourism. In the process, the Ministry consults and collaborates with other stakeholders in the sector including various Central Ministries/agencies, state governments, Union Territories and the representatives of the private sector.

Presented is a modern classic of the rich history of India.  Opening in the historical city of Delhi, the journey retraces Corbett’s man-eater trail to Champawat and Chukka, continuing through the royal city of Jaipur and the Mughal city of Agra.

One of the first country reports in Asian region; widely reviewed commented by the scholars, activists and civil society including European Accessibility Network. Dwelt in to the complexities issues when it came to the participation of disabled people in leisure and tourism activities.

This short article is a brief introduction to the continuity of design heritage in Chhattisgarh in India. A continuity is visible between prehistoric rock art (petroglyphs and pictographs) and  tribal art in inaccessible forested and hilly habitats of indigenous, tribal communities.

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 NorthWestern division is known as Garhwal and SouthEastern division is known as Kumaon. It is a hill state with beautiful forest and snow-capped mountains and sacred pilgrimage spot which attract touristsaltogether. 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 occurringfor 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.

Rural tourism is a form of tourism that showcases the rural life, art, culture and heritage at rural locations, thereby benefiting the local community economically and socially. It is a recent offshoot of tourism sector that has grown up to be a potential business in its own space. It is a significant strategy for rural development by providing an alternate source of livelihood and large scale employment in the rural areas. The development of a strong platform around the concept of Rural Tourism is definitely useful for a state like Assam, where 86% (Census of India 2011) of the population resides in rural areas. Moreover, Assam is a conglomeration of various ethnic tribes and groups each having a distinct language, culture, festivals, songs and dances. The rural Assam has a great potentiality to attract tourists who are in search of authentic natural and cultural resources. Majuli is the largest river island in the world and is located on the Brahmaputra River. It has a great potentiality for different growing segments of tourism like Eco-tourism, Cultural Tourism, Agri-tourism and Religious Tourism. Although government has been launching various rural development and wage employment schemes for providing rural livelihood security, but due to some defect it fails to show hopeful result. So in this paper an attempt has been made to highlight the potentialities of rural tourism as a tool of sustainable livelihood to the rural poor.

India is a suicide hub. Thousands of people commit suicide every day. Every suicide is associated with a strong reason. The basic question of suicide is associated with why people suicide, wherein the possibility of medication for those who attempt suicide is not yet revealed. There are hundred reasons to commit suicide and the only way to stop this self assassination is psychological therapy. Coffin therapy would control the suicide attempts and bring new hopes of life among the attempters. Coffin therapy can be blended with tourism which will bring a drastic fall in suicide. It is completely a new concept for Indian society which would control the suicide and as a niche market it would develop a new entrepreneurship skill. This conceptual paper reveals the present and the future possibilities and the experiments in coffin therapy and the possible experiments in coffin therapy tourism.

FDI stands for Foreign Direct Investment. It is an  investment  made by a company or entity based in one country, into a company or entity based in another country. Entities making direct investments typically have a significant degree of influence and control over the company into which the investment is made. Open economies with skilled workforces and good growth prospects tend to attract larger amounts of foreign direct investment than closed, highly regulated economies. While talking about Indian scenario, the hotel and tourism industries have been growing rapidly in recent years, bringing in huge revenues through overseas as well as domestic tourists in many parts of India. There was a key rush to inbound tourism in India in 2006 and a double-digit increase in the coming of overseas tourists to India in the same year. Tourism is one of the largest revenue generators of foreign exchange for India and also employs one of the highest numbers of manpower.It leads to growth in the GDP level.

Today, Tourism is one of the key sectors generating revenue and employment .India being rich in heritage, culture and scenic beauties, makes it one of the most preferred tourist destination. But, this also brings in forth, the concern for conserving and protecting our major sites. Hence, drawing our attention towards eco-tourism. This article studies the concept of eco-tourism and its various aspects. The data collection method used was secondary data from e- journals, books and websites. The results show that there is a continuous increase in the inflow of tourists in India in recent years, which demands continuous and rigorous efforts on the part of Tourism Ministry state government, host community and tourists to support and promote Eco-tourism.

One top agenda of union government is to increase India’s share in world tourist arrivals from the present 0.68% to 1% by 2020 and further increase it to 2% by 2025. Therefore, Visa Online (or called e-Tourist Visa) with Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) Policy launched by the Govt. of India on November 27, 2014 initially for 43 countries and this list is keep on increasing with every foreign tour of our PM. The official figure has suggested that there is 2.4% growth of foreign tourist arrivals between January to April, 2015 as compared to last year. But the major boom lies in inbound tourist numbers which registered a rise up to 1086.3% on-year in January to April 2015 just because of e-Tourist Visa. And total 94,998 tourists arrived on e-Tourist Visa, as compared with 8,008 under the earlier TVoA Scheme last year.

Disability is an important public health problem especially in developing countries like India. The problem will increase in future because of increase in trend of non-communicable diseases and change in age structure with an increase in life expectancy. The issues are different in developed and developing countries, and rehabilitation measures should be targeted according the needs of the disabled with community participation.

Over the years, perceptions towards disability have
varied significantly from one community to another in time to
time. Limited literature is available in disability history, concepts
and varied models. This situation continues to pose a great
challenge to governments, policy makers, other agencies and
students of disability studies. In their endeavour to trace the
development  and formation of policies and perceptions towards
persons with disabilities. It is towards this end, this article seeks
to present a coherent literature review of disability studies based
on existing literature. That influence perceptions and policy
matters towards children, women and adults with disabilities.
This article provides a few diagrammatical representation that
illustrate different models of disability

Is health tourism a mere buzz phrase or our society has evolved to the extent that we can think of promoting it in
Jammu and Kashmir? In Kashmir where tourism is the backbone of the economy, can we after 23 long years of unrest
afford to follow the trend of sustainable development and think in terms of health tourism? We are living in a place where
unemployment is more pandemic than disease itself, green tourism gives hope of providing employment through credible
and believable means. Health tourism or medical tourism as called popularly is a term used to refer tourists’ wellbeing at
economical costs. It can greatly change the image of Kashmir in the minds of tourists and make it a popular travel
destination again. Even though right now in Kashmir we don’t have the infrastructure to support our aspirations of
changing the face of tourism but there is a huge scope of development and infrastructure build-up. Though sporadic events
of turmoil may initially hinder the growth of medical tourism here but once concept is popularized through campaigns,
workshops and youth awareness we can dream of a Kashmir as the new healthcare destination in India. The paper covers a
vast range of literature on medical tourism which will help us in accessing its pros and cons and scope of its development
in Kashmir. Also how we can establish risk free medical tourism here and guarantee sizable employment.

Tourism has strong linkage with the economic growth and development in India. Because of its maximum backward and forward linkages, tourism contributed more in the income and
employment generation in India. However, the development of the tourism sector in India also raises some of the issues related to the environment. This paper is an overview on the environmental issues of tourism development in the context of India Tourism. Observational approach has been used in the present study. In addition, pictorial presentation has been made to highlight the mounting effects of tourism in India. The findings of the study revealed that an environmental issue of tourism in India is different per region or state. From the theoretical perspective carrying capacity, land degradation, pollution, deforestation, climate changes, solid wastes etc have been viewed as important environmental effects of tourism development. A detail study on Environmental Impact Assessment is, therefore, needed in different region of India for the sustainable management and environment protection.
Key words: Environment, Carrying capacity, Natural resources, India