Overview
- Is the first of its kind, based on both qualitative and quantitative analysis of sustainable tourism development
- Contains rich text supported by 53 figures – maps, graphs, illustrations, models, and 17 tables
- Serves useful for the students, research scholars, academicians, and policymakers
Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a detailed description of sustainable tourism development in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. Though the Uttarakhand Himalaya is bestowed with numerous locales of tourists/pilgrims’ interests, tourism has not yet been developed substantially. This book describes geographical and cultural components of tourism, major types of tourism and tourist places, tourist/pilgrim circuits, case studies of the important tourists/pilgrims’ routes, trends of tourism, development of homestay tourism, development of infrastructural facilities for tourism development, major constrains and prospects of sustainable tourism development, and conclusions. SWOC analysis of tourism activities has been carried out. The book is based on the author’s observation of tourism development in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. Further, large tourism data was gathered and analyzed, using a qualitative and a quantitative method, and a sustainable tourism model was developed. This book is very useful for students,research scholars, academicians, and policymakers.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Tourism Development in the Himalaya: Constraints and Prospects
Authors: Vishwambhar Prasad Sati
Series Title: Environmental Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58854-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58853-3Published: 05 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58856-4Published: 06 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58854-0Published: 04 November 2020
Series ISSN: 1863-5520
Series E-ISSN: 1863-5539
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 153
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Geography, Cultural Geography