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Conditioning Factors for the Development

and Growth of Sustainableentrepreneurship in Mountain Tourism

Promotion in Uttarakhand Himalaya India

S. C. BAGRI,HIMGIRI ZEE UNIVERSITY,DEHRADUN INDIA


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Tourist Arrival

Every year in the Indian

Himalaya, more than 30

million tourists come for

pilgrimages, trekking, and

sight seeing


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Indian HimalayaJammu &

Kashmir

Himachal

Pradesh

Uttarakhand


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Uttarakhand Himalaya


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PULL ATTRIBUTES OF MOUNTAIN

TOURISM

INUTTARAKHAND STATE.


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Pilgrimage Destinations

Kedarnath Badrinath Gangotri Yamunotri

Baijnath Adibadri JageshwarLakhamandal


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NATURE TOURISM

Himalayan View from Kausani


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NATURE TOURISM

Valley of Flowers(Natures Own Garden)


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NATURE TOURISM-DEORIA TAL

LAKE


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ADVENTURE TOURISM

TREKKING- High Altitude Lakes

- Meadows

- Passes

- Glaciers

- Sacred Shrines

SKIING

Auli Dayara

Munsyari

Mundali

MOUNTAINEERING Nanda Devi (7816m)

Kamet (7756m)

Shivling (7100m)

Chaukhamba (7138m)


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Adventure tourism (contd..)

NATURE CAMPING Chopta

Tapovan

Panwalikantha

Panar

Gorson

RAFTING

Ganga

Tons

Alaknanda

Kali


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LIFESTYLE & LIVELIHOOD

HOUSE ARCHITECTURE

Farming on Terraced FieldsFodder Collection


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Culture and traditionsCholiya Dance: Kumaon

Harvesting Festival: Garhwal

Kamal Yatra: Niti Valley Bhotia Tribal Woman


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Mountain Meadows


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Few setbacks of Mountain

Tourism

10/29/2012 15Prof.S.C.Bagri Himgiri Zee University India

promotion of mountain tourism ishighly risky exercise and encourage

environmental degradation becauseof Unplanned Development


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Gaumukh: The source of river Ganga?


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Tourism


Mushrooming of

accommodation units hastheir footprints in many

fragile areas pose threats tothe habitat and ecosystem.


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Tourism


Policies aimed to conserve

and benefit the mountain

poor are mostly short-term

rather ensuring long-term

conservation and benefits.


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Sustainable Mountain Tourism

Practices in Uttarakhand State


Difficult to practice and

bring consensus among theparticipating stakeholders to

ensure effectivesustainability.


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However, the tendency

towards sustainability isincreasing and many experiments

and exercises have been workedupon attaining the same.


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Involving Tourists in Destination

Conservation


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Ecotourism Development

Committee (EDC) is one such

good initiative to empower the

community well being and self

reliance


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Government is instrumental

in promoting Bio-Tourism in thestate focusing to offer unique

and authentic experience to thearriving tourists in Bio-village.


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Discussing with the Village

representatives for Biotourism


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Bio-Tourism gives an opportunity to

visitors to have an experience of

nature in ways that lead to greatersatisfaction


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Appreciation and enjoyment

by spending a minimum of twonights with local families in the

bio-villages of the state


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what is to be looked after ?

A TRADITIONAL VILLAGE NEAR DEH


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Active participation of Tourists : An

example from Uttarakhand


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Bio-Tourism concept was coined by

Uttarakhand Organic Commodity

Board (UOCB) and they developed abio-village in Kumaon region named

Syath in Kotabagh block of districtNainital.


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An example of Biotourism


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Bio-tourism in this village is

effectively managed by a Self Help

Group (SHG) named 'PragatisheelKisan ( Progressive Farmer)


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Bio-Tourism Park at Village Pipalkoti

of Chamoli District managed by Local

community


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TRIGUGNARAYANVILLAGEINGARHWAL


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Introducing eco-tax for the arriving

vehicles specially in Mussoorie and

Nainital lake area and is in theexpansion measure to other parts of

the state including reserve forests aswell.


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Forest management by local

communities in the form of VanPanchayats under the direction of

Sarpanch (Head of a Village Forest

Council or Van Panchayat)


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A consortium comprising of community

members, forest department, Uttarakhand

Tourism Development Board (UTDB), have beenformed to traverse various activities possible in

mountain areas in the form of seasonal

calendar for the ease of tourists without harmand disturbance to the resources of the

participating activity.


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Sustainable Mountain Tourism Practices in

Uttarakhand State



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Note: Core group A, B, C & D shall be formed unanimously

with joint collaboration by lead players consortium

comprises of UTDB, Dept. of Forest, travel agents/tour

operators. Each core group A,B, C & D shall be comprises of5 to 6 people to look each tourism activity professionally so

that every quarter month, nothing is left unchecked from

receiving tourist at the originating point and taking them to

different places and getting them engaged and enjoyed withplethora of options under the basket of sustainable

mountain tourism.


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Conclusion


It is evident that mountain tourismensures environment favorably besides

developing community members living in

mountain area; however, ensuring

sustainability in mountain areas and

enjoying benefits out of it is not free fromdebates.


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Conclusion


Should focus on ensuring holisticlinkage for valuing the diversity

and vulnerability of mountainenvironment besides focusing on

integrating economic vitality andecological resiliency.


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Conclusion


Policy makers and practitionersshould facilitate sustainable and

equitable mountain tourismdevelopment through encouraging

local ownership, reducing outsidersinvolvement


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Conclusion


The significance for mountain tourismis increasing day by day and it is

imperative to learn the effectivepractices to ensure sustainability for

longer run so that the resources shall

exists for ever.


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Conclusion


It is also viewed that wherevercommercialization is involved, it

becomes difficult to sustain theresources, so tourism in mountain

areas should distance itself from

relying more on commercialization.

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Who will take care of such spiritual

tourist if commercialization continues?


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Conclusion


Finally to conclude..

Tourism will never be

completely sustainable asevery industry has impacts,

but it can work towardsbecoming more sustainable

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Finally Thinkers for sustainable

Tourism


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