SUSTAINABILITY OF TOURISM IN INDIA: PERCEPTION OFTOURISTS ON UTTARAKHAND TOURISM

Dr. Gaurav Goel; Dr. Sunil Kumar Batra

doi:10.5281/zenodo.23808422

Abstract

This research paper presents to the impact of tourism on economy, environment, and socio- cultural aspects of Uttarakhand and explores how Uttarakhand incorporated sustainable tourism development as the main mission to achieve economic, environmental, and socio-cultural development of tourist destinations. This research paper examines the environmental, economic, and socio-cultural sustainability of tourism development in Uttarakhand. A primary investigation was conducted at various tourist places in Uttarakhand for evaluating the sustainability of tourism through the questionnaire. A data set consisting of 50 responses were generated. The analysis of this paper provides special perceptiveness on the factors, which lead to sustainability of tourist destinations in Uttarakhand. Research findings show that the resourcemanagement, pressure on resources, local empowerment, environmental management, socio-cultural Unsustainability, tourism sector, destination management, sustainable tourism promotion, local community participation and anti-social activities are the main factors, which affects the sustainability of tourist destinations in Uttarakhand. As this research paper renders exhaustive and scientific facts about the environmental, economic, and socio-cultural impacts of tourism development in Uttarakhand, the research findings can provide valuable suggestions to the government agencies, tourism operators, hotels and restaurants, and NGOs which formulating and implementing tourism policies.

Keywords

Environmental Sustainability, Economic Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Socio-cultural Sustainability.

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