Tourism in South Asia
Tourism in south Asia:
This world contains a facet of nations, peoples, scenario etc. critically visualizing everyone in this world is racing infinitesimally with the needs and challenges emerging in their general life in response to their daily work. So as a means to get relief and refreshment from the daily work , most of the people visit abroad for recreational , business, educational purposes etc. And this is known as tourism. From the definition point of view; theobald in 1994 suggested that etymologically the word tour is derived from the greek letter ‘tornose’ and the latin ‘tornase’; meaning a lathe or a circle, the movement around a central point or axis . the suffix –ism is defined as an action or process: typical behaviour or a quality. thus tourism is defined as “ the sum of phenomenon and relationship arising from travel and the stay of non residence in so far as they do not lead to the permanent residence and are not connected with any earning activity”.
Similarly world tourism organization defines tourist as a people who travel to and stay in a places outside their usual environment for more than 24 hours and do not more than one consecutive year for leisure and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the places visited.
South Asia is home to a solid one-third of the world’s population.
Some of the best brains that run the world have South Asian roots or lineage. The region is home to the highest and the second highest mountain peaks of the world (Everest and K2). Most of the world’s quality water resources are in the region with the river systems originating from the Himalayas. Some of world’s best ocean resources (coral reefs of
Maldives), beaches (Coxes Bazaar), and mangrove areas (Sunderbans) are located in the region. Its biodiversity is unmatched (Sinharaja, Chitwan).
Home to marvels such as the Taj Mahal, Ajanta, Sigiriya, Timpu, and
Taxila, the heritage and cultures of the
This world contains a facet of nations, peoples, scenario etc. critically visualizing everyone in this world is racing infinitesimally with the needs and challenges emerging in their general life in response to their daily work. So as a means to get relief and refreshment from the daily work , most of the people visit abroad for recreational , business, educational purposes etc. And this is known as tourism. From the definition point of view; theobald in 1994 suggested that etymologically the word tour is derived from the greek letter ‘tornose’ and the latin ‘tornase’; meaning a lathe or a circle, the movement around a central point or axis . the suffix –ism is defined as an action or process: typical behaviour or a quality. thus tourism is defined as “ the sum of phenomenon and relationship arising from travel and the stay of non residence in so far as they do not lead to the permanent residence and are not connected with any earning activity”.
Similarly world tourism organization defines tourist as a people who travel to and stay in a places outside their usual environment for more than 24 hours and do not more than one consecutive year for leisure and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the places visited.
South Asia is home to a solid one-third of the world’s population.
Some of the best brains that run the world have South Asian roots or lineage. The region is home to the highest and the second highest mountain peaks of the world (Everest and K2). Most of the world’s quality water resources are in the region with the river systems originating from the Himalayas. Some of world’s best ocean resources (coral reefs of
Maldives), beaches (Coxes Bazaar), and mangrove areas (Sunderbans) are located in the region. Its biodiversity is unmatched (Sinharaja, Chitwan).
Home to marvels such as the Taj Mahal, Ajanta, Sigiriya, Timpu, and
Taxila, the heritage and cultures of the