ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 3

Mining heritage tourism & its impact on economic development -A study of Jharkhand (India)

  • Author:
  • Soma Hazra, Partha Pratim Sengupta
  • Total Page Count: 15
  • Page Number: 175 to 189

*Research Scholar, NIT, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

**National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

Online published on 3 April, 2013.

Abstract

For many local communities in developing regions and elsewhere, the existence of large attractions nearby generates both the benefits and income. This paper examines some of the capability of the complex part i.e. the relationship among the local people (host) communities, their local mining heritage sites and heritage tourism structures. Jharkhand (India) is used to illustrate the heritage potentials, local participation and the role of heritage tourism management in developing countries. It further offers some reflections on how tourism planning and marketing strategies might encourage, small scale local tourism enterprises for the benefit of both the host and guest people in this study. This paper focuses on the important issues on increasing profit on tourism point of view. It uses a data set of tourists (domestic/international) over the period 2005–2010 to evaluate their different changes of scopes in the tourist area of Jharkhand and calculating the data's by taking help of PCT (percentage) method. The results have a positive impact on changes under different variables retunes to assumptions.

From the paper, the people can feel a mild sort of affection for this state, Jharkhand. The basic theme of the paper has been analyzed into the following sections, sec. I Introduction, sec. II Literature review, sec. III need of the study, sec IV present mining heritage tourism concept, and sec. V objectives, sec. VI research methodology, sec. VII presents the data presentation & analysis, sec. VIII findings, sec IX recommendations/conclusion & sec X includes the references.

Keywords

Heritage, Jharkhand Tourism, Marketing, Promotion, Strategy