Reshaping the Image of Indian Pilgrim Tourism- A Case of Vrindavan, Mathura

Abstract

The research paper is about built environment and development of pilgrimage in India.to study how important is there need for pilgrimage tourism to be focused on and why it is required by analyzing the current condition of Indian pilgrim sites in context of its built environment which includes various factors of these places due to which various issues and problems are being faced by studying various pilgrim sites of different location with different cultural and architectural heritage aspect. and then understand the need for betterment of these places by finding vital solutions to improve the built environment of pilgrim sites with various strategies and increase the tourist inflow to such places as pilgrim tourism in India contribute to a large part of social, cultural heritage to maintain the dignity of Indian heritage by redeveloping or conserving of these sites. Various government bodies had also come up and private organization to heal and preserve these sites and proper management of high inflow of tourist as these sacred sites had a limited holding capacity and resources which could not fulfill an excess amount of tourist also with time the heritage infrastructure are getting deteriorated without proper care.so the aim of this research paper is to specify development strategies for Indian pilgrim sites to enhance built environment by various objectives that are to create a timeline of the development occurred in the pilgrim region by understanding the history through the impact of various invasions and various cultural, socio-economic aspects. Finding out solutions for tackling the issue of mass-gathering and mass- movement in these pilgrim sites due to increasing urban sprawl with the passing time and at the peak time where these issues increase more that are due to lack of resources, facilities, accommodation for tourist.