Tourism in Rajasthan 

Tourism in Rajasthan

 

👉Tourism is the vital breath in the human activity while making a prolonged journey from place to place. It is a human desire to make a sound of the places of interest,i.e. religious, spiritual, natural phenomenon, beautiful places, monuments, ancient cities and sites, historical places of pilgrims and above all the places of curiosity. Tourism may be considered as an organized, purposeful and definite lust to wander on the part of man. Therefore, human mobility and tourism have been closely linked since time immemorial.

 

 

👉Mobility in various forms, in forms of period, purpose and place has greatly affected the evolution of human culture from the automatic and hazardous nomadic to the present day organized, purposeful and comfortable travels.

 

 

👉There is a continuous unfolding of human civilization. The sense of curiosity to know, to see and to relish that which lies beyond one’s immediate environs might have been the motive force to kindle the cupidity for diversity and areal differentiation behind human wanderings. Before going into the details of the subject matter, it will be more feasible to define a tourist.

 

 

👉Although it is difficult to define a tourist, yet according to the IUOTO(International Union of Official Travel Organization), 'A tourist is a person travelling for a period of 24 hours or more in a country other than that in which he usually resides. '

 

 

👉According to Brown the Centuary Dictionary defines a tourist is one who travel for pleasure visiting number of places to see the scenery sights etc.

 

👉Ogilivie defines a tourists ‘’Tourists are not to be despised as consumer of goods..... . It is mainly consumer of services that they are to be considered and specially of two transport services.

 

 

👉Thus, we can define a tourist "A tourist is a person who spends money and visits another country for a period of not less than 24 hours and not more than six months for legitimate, non-immigrant and certain purpose such as sight-seeing, recreation, sports, health, study, pilgrimage, business, official duties, conferences, expeditions, missions, photography, shooting, film-shooting, family reasons and the like.

 

 

👉In the modern age of science when distances are not measured in terms of kilometres but in hours, the length and breadth of the globe has been wonderfully reduced; industrialization and urbanization cultivated the opprobrium and monotony in the minds of humanity, the need to understand one another has assumed its great importance; 'Tourism' says Dr Radhakrishan, 'widens our horizons, promotes understanding, stimulates travel and fosters Moreover, tourism educates our minds, innovates the isolation and egotism and provides the first-hand knowledge of different nations and Today, tourism is an important industry that has opened new perspectives for Economic empowerment and it makes a very powerful contribution and strengthens the development of a country's financial resources. Besides, tourism fetches foreign exchange in the form of invisible export which result in manifold progress of the nation. Therefore, tourism is a process in which mutual benefits, material and mental, accumulate.

 

Geographical Aspects of Tourism

 

👉Geography and tourism are related to each other. It was only the stimulus provided by Geography due to which tourism originated and developed in the world. The curiosity to know what lies beyond one's own immediate border has its tap roots in Geography. Moreover, geographical diversity and variety is the base in the nature, planning and volume of tourist traffic in any country, Tourists generally prefer to visit those parts of the globe which are characterised by wide vistas both in time and space.

 

 

👉The advertisements in the British Railways under the caption of Travel to the sunny south attract large because of their healthy, invigorating and mild climate. The time chosen by tourists for visiting different parts of the world is again a question of suitability of seasons. Transportational suitability is largely guided by geographical panorama, modes and means of travel may vary in the mountains, plateaus, plains, deserts or snow-clad regions. Although, the modern transportation and communication have brought about uniformity in travelling modes and regions of the tour, yet traditional and regional modes of transport continues to have their hold.

 

 

👉Travel industry is largely dependent on wide and organized publicity. A tourist can only plan his tour if all the suitable information viz. geographical, economic, transportational, communicational, accommodational, meteorological and the like from the relevant agencies are available. Much of these informations can be made available to a tourist by simple attractive and comprehensive methods supported by maps and illustrations which needs skilled cartographic work in which geographic cartography along with commercial art have important contribution to make. Preparation of maps with route ways punctuate with pictorial representation of places of tourist's interest is a precondition for the development of the tourist industry.

 

Ecological Aspects of Tourism

 

👉Ecology also plays an important role in shaping and reshaping the tourist industry in a given area or a country. Keoladeo Ghana bird sanctuary cannot be developed in a arid land.Bharatpur is located in the semi-arid climatic region of our country which provides solar rains,floral wealth, water potentiality, migratory bird route and the place for their short but sweet stay.

 

👉Similarly, the simultaneous upbringing of Tiger, Panther, Deer, and the like (fauna) wild life wealth at Kanha, Ranthambhor, Sariska National Parks and sanctuary, put forth ecologically balanced view for the tourist industry to grow. Also, the availability of the national bird peacock in northern India, Godawan in Rajasthan, Gir lions in Gujarat and elephants in Assam are again the ecological aspects of tourism in our country. The diversity of nature, peaceful co-existence of floral and manual organisms are the pivot of tourist industry.

 

👉Nature is benign if adjustment is restored but bewildering if harshfully intervened, unrationally utilized and illegitimately damaged. If a dam is constructed to beautify the area, attract the tourists, navigation, fishing, recreation and other purposes without caring for the siltation, erosion, deforestation, talus creep, land degradation problems in view, the result will be a painful one, and disastrous. A conceptual model showing the inter-relationship between various ecological factors in hill road construction and the resultant eco-imbalance causing hardships for tourist industry is a point directional.

 

 

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