TOURISM AND TOURIST INFLUX EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS IN HARIDWAR AND RISHIKESH TOWNSHIPS OF UTTARAKHAND
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development in the region, also has been suggested. Keywords, disparities, man and environment, patterns and trends, physio-cultural, sustainable tourism, tourist influx.Abstract
Tourism is the fastest growing industry and fashion of the modern world. Thousands of people every year travel from their native places to Uttarakhand in the form of tourism. Uttarakhand, a Himalayan state is laden with mighty snow covered peaks, lusty green valleys, gorgeous waterfalls, the abundance of various other geomorphic features with hundreds of religious places spread throughout its vicinity; make it an overwhelming tourist destination. Haridwar and Rishikesh are the world famous tourist centres of Uttarakhand; both witness tremendous tourist influx throughout the year. On the one hand heavy tourist influx is facilitating economic activities, employment generation, and infrastructural development in the Uttarakhand in many folds, while on the other, imposing heavy pressure on natural and human resources and causing gigantic physio-cultural and socio-economic disparities. Tourism is proving boon to the local economy of Haridwar and Rishikesh with tremendous environmental and cultural constraints. To establish a cordial relation between man and environment for sustainable tourism development, it is evident to look out the patterns and trends of tourism, tourist types, purpose of tourism and related phenomena, so that the plans can be drafted and executed accordingly. This paper focuses an attention, mainly on the patterns and trends of tourism in Haridwar- Rishikesh tourist destinations in Uttarakhand with comparative evaluation of tourist influx between Haridwar and Rishikesh; along its probable causative factors. Some plans for sustainable tourism development in the region, also has been suggested.
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