Volume : IV, Issue : X, October - 2014

Principles and Practicing Policies of Indian Tourism Industry

Dr. B. Sudha

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In the early days of independent India, quite rationally, the Government didnt pay much attention to tourism. Worldwide, the number of international tourists was still limited and among those tourists there were only few who considered going to faraway places like India. Moreover, the Indian Government had more urgent matters at hand. In 1982, the Indian Government presented its first tourism policy. In retrospect one could argue that the novelty of the subject, its low priority and the belief in its potential as a social engineering tool (in keeping with Indian public ideology at that time), contributed to a rather simplistic piece of work. It took the government until 2002 to present an updated policy document. Those expecting a clear line of thinking and plan must have been quite disappointed by the new policy. This paper starts with a ief description of the history of tourism and tourism policy development in India, which concludes with a summary of the most important objectives of the latest policy. Section two addresses the impact of the development community on the tourism policy. It focuses on the idea of tourism as a threat. Apart from analyzing the possible meaning of this concept in the context of Indian reality it iefly describes a concrete project which can be regarded as an implementation of the idea.

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Dr.B.Sudha Principles and Practicing Policies of Indian Tourism Industry Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue : 10 October 2014

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