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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
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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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Few setbacks of Mountain
Tourism
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Mushrooming of
accommodation units hastheir footprints in many
fragile areas pose threats tothe habitat and ecosystem.
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Few setbacks of Mountain
Tourism
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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
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Difficult to practice and
bring consensus among theparticipating stakeholders to
ensure effectivesustainability.
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Practices in Uttarakhand State
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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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Practices in Uttarakhand State
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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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Practices in Uttarakhand State
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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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Practices in Uttarakhand State
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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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Practices in Uttarakhand State
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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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Practices in Uttarakhand State
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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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Practices in Uttarakhand State
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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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Practices in Uttarakhand State
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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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Practices in Uttarakhand State
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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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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
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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
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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
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Policy makers and practitionersshould facilitate sustainable and
equitable mountain tourismdevelopment through encouraging
local ownership, reducing outsidersinvolvement
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Conclusion
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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
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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.
f
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Who will take care of such spiritual
tourist if commercialization continues?
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Conclusion
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Finally to conclude..
Tourism will never be
completely sustainable asevery industry has impacts,
but it can work towardsbecoming more sustainable
i ll hi k f i bl
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Finally Thinkers for sustainable
Tourism
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