POTENTIAL OF ALTERNATE TOURISM IN TRIBAL DESTINATIONS – A STUDY OF HIMACHAL PRADESH

Authors

  • SUNIL KUMAR Research Scholar Institute of Vocational Studies (IVS) Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla

Keywords:

Potential, Alternate tourism, Rural tourism, Eco tourism, Agri tourism, Adventure tourism.

Abstract

This paper studies the potential of Alternative tourism in the tribal areas of Himachal Pradesh. Alternate tourism consists of many types of tourism such as rural tourism, agri tourism, wildlife tourism, scenic tourism pro poor tourism, eco tourism etc. The data was collected from the tourists both domestic and foreigners visiting the triba; areas of Himachal Pradesh and then carefully analysed. It was found that alternate tourism has huge potential in these areas escpacially eco tourism and rural tourism

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Published

2015-09-30

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Vol. 4 No. 10 (2015): SEPTEMBER 2015

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