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HANDBOOK ON TOURISM RESOURCES AND PRODUCTS OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR

Join us for more information HANDBOOK ON TOURISM RESOURCES AND PRODUCTS OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR  Tourism Products  Tourism Tourism is the temporary movement of people to destinations outside their normal place of work and residence. Such a pleasure-seeking tourist is a traveller moving from place to place or visiting the same place time and again. Tourism includes all economic activities which are organised around the needs of such travellers. Any travel for holidays, business, or professional trip becomes a part of tourism if it is temporary and is undertaken voluntarily, without an aim to earn any livelihood out of it.  Tourists: are temporary visitors staying at least for 24 hours in the country visited by them as the purpose of whose visit can be leisure or business. EXCURSIONS: are temporary visitors visiting a particular place for a period of fewer than 24 hours.  MEANING AND DEFINITION OF TOURISM PRODUCTS A tourism product can be defined as the sum of the physica...

Tourism and its features

Join us for more information Tourism and its features Important Types of Tourism: International and Domestic Tourism! Different types of tourism can be recognized depending on the length of stay, mode of transport used, distance traveled, purpose of the trip, and the price paid by tourists. Broadly speaking, there are four major types of tourism namely: (i) international tourism, (ii) domestic tourism, (iii) long-distance tourism, and (v) short distance tourism. (i) International Tourism: An international tourist crosses the boundaries of many countries, uses different currencies, faces different languages, and meets different types of people. Usually, international tourism involves longer distances although crossing small countries or traveling in the neighborhood of international borders may involve short distances. (ii) Domestic Tourism: It is concerned with traveling within the country. It does not need a passport and visa or conversion of one currency into another. Domestic touris...

CULTURAL MOTIVATION OF TOURISM

CULTURAL MOTIVATION OF TOURISM  CULTURAL TOURISM                                        Cultural tourism is the subset of tourism concerned with a country or region's culture, specifically the lifestyle of the people in those geographical areas, the history of those people, their art, architecture, religion, and other elements that helped shape their way of life. Cultural tourism includes tourism in urban areas, particularly historic or large cities, and their cultural facilities such as museums and theatres. It can also include tourism in rural areas showcasing the traditions of indigenous cultural communities, and their values and lifestyle. It is generally agreed that cultural tourists spend substantially more than standard tourists do. This form of tourism is also becoming generally more popular throughout the world, and a recent OECD report has highlighted the role that cultural...

Tourism

                                                                                            Tourism                                                                      Tourism is one of the world’s fastest-growing industries and a major foreign exchange and employment generation for many countries. It is one of the most remarkable economic and social phenomena. The word‘ tour’ is derived from the Latin word tornus, meaning ‘a tool for making a circle’. Tourism may be defined as the movement of the people from their normal pl...