Contents: Preface. 1. Need for research in tourism/P. Yenadi Raju. 2. Types of tourism in India/V. Thimmappa. 3. Energy and environment concerns of tourism in India/V. Sudarsan. 4. Dimensions of cultural tourism in India/A. Lakshmana Chetty. 5. Religious tourism/P. Venu. 6. Medical tourism in India/A. Suryakumari. 7. Human development in Indian tourism industry/M. Deenadayal. 8. Rural tourism/P. Yenadi Raju. 9. Perspectives and prospects of Kerala heritage/T P. ...
Tourism is travel for pleasure; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. Tourism may be international, or within the traveller's country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "traveling to and staying in ...
Easy Trails Around Shimla: Day and Overnight Hikes
The present volume is prepared for the aspiring students, researchers of different streams, civililised citizens, to understand the vast perspective of Cultural and Natural, Tangible and L intangible Indian Heritages and its significance. The book covers Indian heritages as a whole which comprises Indian architecture, rock paintings to mi nature paintings, Indian classical and folk dances, music, handicrafts, cuisine, beach and mountain tourism, wildlife tourism, ...
Temples and Legends of Karnataka: A Pilgrimage to 108 Shrines
Lady Henrietta Clive, a feisty, independent-minded traveller, married to Lord Edward Clive, son of Clive of India and Governor of Madras from 1798 to 1803, lived in Madras and travelled through southern India with her daughters and retinue in the aftermath of the war against Tipu Sultan. In this volume, Nancy Shields skilfully interweaves extracts from Henrietta’s journals with passages from the diary of Charly, Henrietta’s precocious twelve-year-old ...
On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of Southern India
One of the world’s great travel writers, Dervla Murphy, and her young daughter, Rachel—with little money, no taste for luxury and few concrete plans—meander their way slowly south from Bombay to the southernmost point of India, Cape Comorin, in 1973. Interested in everything they see, but only truly enchanted by people, they stay in fishermen’s huts and no-star hotels, travelling in packed-out buses, on foot and by boat. But instead of ...
One winter in the mid-1970s, Dervla Murphy, her six-year-old daughter Rachel and Hallam, a hardy mule, walked into Baltistan close to Pakistan-held Kashmir—the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas. For three months they travelled along the perilous Indus Gorge and into nearby valleys, making a mockery of fear, trekking through the forbidding Karakoram mountains and lodging with the Balts, who farm one of the remotest regions on earth. Despite the hardship, ...
The Ultimate Taj Mahal is written from the unique perspective of a highly acclaimed architecture academician. The book covers a wide spectrum of deliberations The Ultimate Taj Mahal is written from the unique perspective of a highly acclaimed architecture academician. The book covers a wide spectrum of deliberations - beginning with discussing the art and aesthetics embodied in the Taj Mahal; placing Taj Mahal in context with the cultural, political and ...
Gentle in disposition, fierce in battle and beloved in festivals, across time, India's elephants have been synonymous with the ceremonial pomp of royalty as well as symbols of strength, production and majesty. Elephants have inspired idioms and games and have captured our fancy as evident in ancient temple architecture as well as Mughal miniatures. in India's Elephants: A Cultural Legacy, Tripti Pandey explores our fascination with this impressive creature, ...
Tourism and Conservation of Heritage Monuments: The Stakeholders’ Manifesto highlights and demonstrates the on-going issues and solutions for conserving and preserving the rich heritage monuments and historical buildings. It also serves as a resource book on the subject of tourism and conservation. It seeks useful knowledge applied in the historical, cultural, aesthetic sense of responsibility on conservation of heritage monuments in the inclusive space of ...
Sumit Basu makes his photographic debut with a refreshing and personal vision of the ancient city of Benaras. The city history and many layers make it a difficult subject to capture, but basu,s closely observed black-and-white images offer penetrating comments on life in this holy city, and skilfully avoid the obvious and the cliched. His sympathetic yet objective treatment invests this series with originality, verve and discrimination. Basu tells a story well. ...
Tourism is a socio-economic phenomenon comprising of activities and experiences of tourists and visitors away from their home environment, serviced by the travel and tourism industry and host destinations. Tourism serves to identify the visitors as a person who satisfies their needs during the travel and stay outside their residence by consuming tourism goods.
