Abstract
Incredible tangible and intangible heritage of India play a vital role towards the nation’s overall growth and development. Ancient literature posse’s sufficient references about the travelers, scholars and philosophers those preserved and portrayed the heritage for future generation which is apparently visible from various travelers’ diaries, traditions and exhibitions. Despite a difficulty in finding out the right sentiment for expressing the true meaning of heritage, the concept of heritage has been explored to its core for an acceptable definition in this research study. This study suggests that heritage can act as an important holistic development tool for the overall community development. The opinion of stakeholders was recorded with the help of a questionnaire administered on local community nearby places of historic significance. The study provides ample scope and opportunities towards heritage tourism development in India as per stakes of local community. According to Mahatma Gandhi “A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people”. Therefore local community has been considered as the ultimate ambassador for heritage and cultural tourism in this research paper.
Highlights
Over the past few decades, as the ‘tourism studies’ has emerged as an academic discipline, it has been dominated by other disciplines including economics, business and management studies
This study suggests that heritage can act as an important holistic development tool for the overall community development
The opinion of stakeholders was recorded with the help of a questionnaire administered on local community nearby places of historic significance
Summary
Over the past few decades, as the ‘tourism studies’ has emerged as an academic discipline, it has been dominated by other disciplines including economics, business and management studies. Historians have recognized the potential significance of tourism’s past for their discipline at a slow pace They are not successful to identify the global (and globalizing) importance of tourism as a transforming set of economic activities as it has emerged as the largest and most persistent global industry of the new millennium. The prominent valleys, important mountain passes, charming lakes, hot springs, waterfalls and strategic river system along with moderate temperature boosts the natural heritage assets of the state Along with such wonderful tourism resource base and earlier promoted tourism hub by government even before independence, surprisingly state is not able to occupy a space among top five tourist receiving states in the country. On the basis of above argument this research is a sincere attempt to develop a heritage based tourism product in the state of Himachal Pradesh which focuses on the attraction attributes of heritage resources, and records the stakeholders (Figure 1) opinions towards such type of tourism development
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