PROBLEMS IMPACTING TOURISM: In spite of its enormous potential of tourism, its development in the last many years remained a dream due to the following problems:- 1) Lack of Infrastructure:- Even though the framing of the Manipur Tourism Policy, 2014 was completed but its entire implementation in phase wise manner shall take a number of years for its development of infrastructure to the extent of world class standard at various tourist destinations in the state. Due to the poor conditions of the roadway connectivity in the State, Imphal city is the only safe and easy gateway of the tourists through air travel. The conversion of Imphal Airport into an international Airport remains a namesake. It requires a lot of developmental works in terms …show more content…
Due to poor allocation of Plan Fund for tourism through “Special Plan Assistance”(SPA), Non-lapsable central pool Resources (NLCPR), North Eastern Centre Fund (NEC) could not fulfil the requirements of fund for infrastructure development of the tourist destinations very easily. It will take several plan …show more content…
Extra funding pattern shall be exactly required otherwise, tourist attraction shall not be satisfactorily increased to the desired level. In the hilly regions having very popular tourist spots, the connectivity through roadways and safety mechanism requires a great improvement so as to prevent road accidents. The proposed introduction of Imphal (capital city of Manipur)- Mandalay Bus Service should be introduced without further delay. All the hurdles resistance to the quick implementation should be worked out or settled very fast by entering full proof arguments between India and Myanmar. In addition to the present means of communication, the introduction of metro services, rope-way services at certain tourist spots such as Thanga and Karang Islands in and around Loktak Lake shall also increase tourist attraction to a very considerable level.Quick implementation of the proposed Ring Road for Imphal city shall be required.There are 42 State Highways, 69 major district roads and other 127 district roads in the city which needs quick attention of the State
The tourist industry has changed by a large amount, over the past few years due to the change in peoples’ life style and the change in the economy. Now that people earn much more money than in the past people can afford to spend more money on leisure. People now have the benefits of a paid holiday which leads to a lot of tourism as the individual gets his/her holiday money from their work place.
The aim of this essay is to carefully examine the existing resources of tourism within the destination their potential and weakness, SWOT and PEST analysis, statistics of tourist visiting and comparing those numbers and their demographic factors so on. Moreover the objectives of this essay is to discuss and me...
The sustainable development of tourism requires a continue review of impacts of tourism activity on the area concerned but their lies a shortage of such type of assessment of programmes or policies from both government as well as private stakeholders. In Kurukshetra from concerned authorities.
This essay examines the tourist’s responsibility in Nepal. Nepal is known as a suitable place to promote tourism for trekking as well as culture based activities and the aim of this essay is to review and understand not only how unsustainable Nepal has become as a destination but to review the tourists point of view from that destination.
These facilities ha a strong connection with business work, but needs local government’s policy support, since the construction of facilities related with structure and framework of the city. Government should balance the proportion to make sure these facilities will not trouble local people’s life, and to increase new kinds of tour such as exhibition tourism, business tourism, outdoor tourism and vacation tourism. Different with normal tourism, these new kinds of tourism could
time and is therefore perishable. All hotels with a fixed number of rooms and transport operators with a fixed number of seats (railway, air carrier, bus companies, etc.) face the challenge of matching supply to the available demand. Excess capacity that is not sold on a particular day is lost and can never be recovered.
3. Government support: The government has realized the importance of tourism and has proposed a budget of Rs. 540 crore for the development of the industry. The priority is being given to the development of the infrastructure and of new tourist destinations and circuits. The Department of Tourism (DOT) has already started the "Incredible India" campaign for the promotion of tourism in India.
The solution of this problem is to improve the infrastructure and apply new strategies to attract more tourists. The government is responsible for this project especially the ministry of tourism as well as the businessman will play an important role by their funds as sponsors for this project. The Turkish has proposed number of strategies with the aim of improving transportation system, restoring historical places. Moreover, according to (how to promote tourism) “ they improve on accommodations and health services in order to attract the tourists, train easy tour guides and hotel workers for communications and...
This dissertation will research on the prospects and possibilities, means and deterrents in the implementation of sustainable tourism in the country.
Nowadays in the rea of globalization, according to the World Tourism Organization, “seven hundred million people travelled abroad in 2003”, and the number is estimated to increase to 1.6 billion by 2020. (International Labour Organization, 2005). Tourism is spreading in unusual places. A lot of people want to be in the midst of adventure. It is a vital source of revenues for the GDP of many countries. I partially agree that tourism hugely benefits the local community. This essay will discuss some of the economic, social and environment effect of tourism on the host community.
Half of century has gone since ‘tourism boom’ began in 1960s (Tirados, 2011). Nowadays, desire to be a tourist is virtually universe which has made tourism become a central element of globalization. The profit brought from tourism is something that we cannot deny however everything has its two sides which are good and bad, advantages and disadvantages or positive and negative. Thailand is a great example to find out the advantages and disadvantages of the development of tourism impact on the country.
The economy can be clearly identified as the most beneficial aspect of tourism. “According to recent statistics, tourism provides about 10% of the world’s income and employs almost one tenth of the world’s workforce” (Mirbabayev, 2007). In Australia alone, Tourism contributed $87.3 billion in 2012, and employed 908,434 (7.9%) people (Kookana & Duc Pham, 2013). Tourism is “one of the most profitable and rapidly developing industries in the world” (Popushoi, 2004). Every year the number of tourists increase dramatically and consequently the revenues from tourism will increase substantially.
Generally, infrastructure is divided into two main parts which involves hard and soft infrastructures. According to UNWTO (United Nations World Trade Organisation), (2011), the enlargement of tourist arrivals, went up by approximately 7% in 2010 to 940 million, has led to increase in the number of new and state-of-the-art hotels, restaurants, airports and other tourist apartments. The rising share of amenities illustrates the improvement of hard infrastructure caused by more tourist number. Other contributions of the industry to the former accessibility of electricity and water, better road systems and transport services are also involved in the related expansion of economic activity (cited in Boz, 2011). Besides that, tourism offers numerous positive impacts to the latter, according to OECD, (2014) “soft infrastructure” can be defined as the creation of events and spaces which shows the spirit and unity of that country’s culture. These forms of infrastructure programmes have been applying to both urban and rural areas in order to make the place more well-known and tourists attractive. For example, in Australia, 2007 several events including the Booktown Festival were held to develop marketing strategies and increase tourist numbers. The results were more satisfactory than expected with place-branding advantages, noticeable rural regeneration, growing tourist numbers and
...to the government coffers. Among the disadvantages of mounting tourism are leakages forms the economies of developing countries through imports, high inflation, land speculation, low investments go back due to seasonal nature of tourism, etc. An important inconvenience of small countries with rich tourist assets is that they tend to depend too much on tourism which is vulnerable to local and regional conflicts as well a national catastrophe. India has tremendous potential for domestic tourism. The economic contribution of domestic tourism is estimated at Rs. 33,000 crores compared to Rs. 3300 crores of the International tourism. So, from an economic point of view domestic tourism is more important than international tourism, mainly for a country like India and for that the role of public and private sector in the expansion of economy be supposed to be complementary.
Many investments for infrastructure construction in the destination primarily designed for the business tourists (hotels, restaurants, transportation…) provide economic profits, and they can also be enjoyed by local residents and leisure tourists.