Tourism as a Long Run Economic Growth with Special Reference to North-Eastern Region in India

Abstract

North-Eastern Region (NER) in India comprises eight states. Tourism in these states based on wildlife, natural beauty, unique flora & fauna, hold shrines, lush green tea gardens, turbulent rivers, vibrant and colourful cultural festivals. But unfortunately, due attention has not been paid to the socio-economic development of these states either by the Central Government or by the States Government. The apathy of the Government at the central and states is largely responsible for the low level of growth of industrial sector in the state. The natural beauty of these states attracts tourist from all over India and also from abroad. These industries have become important sources of income and employment of most of the people living in the states. While the development of agriculture is constrained by limited cultivated area (the states are mostly covered by with hill), development of heavy industries is not easy, and the development of tourism industries can be given greater importance. In this paper an attempt is made to access the contribution of tourism industry in these eight states to the Net State Domestic Product (NSDP). I. INTRODUCTION Tourism is today the worlds largest industry, with the travel and tourism (T & T) industry and T & T economy contributing 4.2% and 10.7% of global GDP respectively. This industry is also the highest generator of jobs, with T & T economy accounting for 8.2% of total employment or in every 12.2 jobs. No wonder than the Tourism has been described as one of the most remarkable economic and social phenomena of the last century. Similarly, this industry significantly contributes GNP in our country and also the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) for its states which are the most important industries of economic growth. The present paper examined the contribution of tourisms in economic growth which is represented by the increased in per capita NSDP North-Eastern Region, as NER becomes a separate world having natural scenic beauty, beautiful reserved forest and also their cultural heritages. Due to this reason, NER in India have a high potentiality of the development of tourism industry. From the above stated research problem, the rest of the paper organized as follows: section 2 reviews the literature in brief, section 3 discusses the objective data and methodology, section 4 makes the analyses of the findings and section 5 concludes the papers.