Investigating spread of rural tourism with the help of homestays in Himachal Pradesh
Rohit Chauhan
, Amrik Singh Thakur
rural tourism; homestays; periphery tourism; rural accommodation; spread of tourism
The development of tourism in peripheries of an established tourist destination has always remained a challenging topic. The development of tourism in rural regions has either been achieved through developing a parallel destination in the remote or peripheral rural areas or through diversification of tourist traffic to peripheral areas from the destination itself. Himachal Pradesh is an Indian Himalayan state located in north. Tourism activities were highly concentrated in and around the major tourist destinations of Shimla, Manali, Dharamshala and Dalhousie in Himachal Pradesh. This study intended to investigate the geographical spread of homestays around tourist destinations, thus analyzing the spread of rural tourism around a destination. This study was conducted by analyzing the spatial proximity of homestays to a tourist destination. The results shown that there is a huge concentration of homestays in the periphery of a destination. There seems negligible development of tourism in rural remote regions of state. Further studies might be conducted to investigate whether the tourism is truly expanding in rural peripheries or tourists were only choosing these accommodation units in peripheral areas to have a comparatively cheaper accommodation in comparison to the accommodation facilities at destination?
"Investigating spread of rural tourism with the help of homestays in Himachal Pradesh", IJSDR - International Journal of Scientific Development and Research (www.IJSDR.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.7, Issue 4, page no.149 - 157, April-2022, Available :https://ijsdr.org/papers/IJSDR2204026.pdf
Volume 7
Issue 4,
April-2022
Pages : 149 - 157
Paper Reg. ID: IJSDR_200237
Published Paper Id: IJSDR2204026
Downloads: 000347371
Research Area: Management
Country: Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
ISSN: 2455-2631 | IMPACT FACTOR: 9.15 Calculated By Google Scholar | ESTD YEAR: 2016
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