Tourism and Development Series: Tourism in Mountain Areas
Chawla, Romila
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PRODUCT DETAILS
Book ID : 28756
ISBN-10 : 81-88836-79-6 / 8188836796
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2005
Edition :
Language : English
23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- 1. Introduction; 2. Why Tourism and Mountains?; 3. Community-based Mountain Tourism; 4. The Tourism Potentials and Impacts in protected mountain areas (A Case Study); 5. Method for monitoring tourism in the mountain region; 6. Community-based mountain tourism; 7. The tourism potentials and impact in protected Mountain Areas; 8. Mountain Tourism in India; 9. Tourism in the mountains, present and future; 10. The effects of climate change on mountain tourism: A contingent behaviour methodology; 11. Mountaineering in India; 12. Mountain Tourism in Pakistan; 13. Global Trends and Issues in Mountain Tourism; 14. Sustainable Mountain Biking: A Case study from the southwest of western Australia; 15. Global code of ethics for tourism.
DESCRIPTION
Tourism emerged as the largest global industry of the 20th century. In the new millennium global economy will be governed by technology, Telecommunication and tourism. Tourism has potential to create the maximum number of jobs. According to an assessment, in India alone, 100 million additional jobs will be created by the tourism industry in the next 25 years. It helps to earn valuable foreign exchange.
There has been rate race among the developed and developing countries to expand tourism indiscriminately, which has resulted, in severe cultural and ecological damages to the host country.
