Tourism Management: Tourism As an Economic Tool of Development for Jammu and Kashmir

Tourism management is one of the important subjects of study for all students studying in different colleges and universities so it is important work guide for all these candidates. That will highly beneficial for all tourism management students all well as academicians, scholars and researchers. Kashmir is commonly called the paradise on earth. Though the whole of Kashmir is blessed with the unmatched natural diversity that provides immense scope for tourism, there are certain areas or destinations, which are already developed as far as tourism is concerned. Development of tourism in these areas has a wide variety of impacts on the economy of that locality and on the overall economy of the state. Naturally, development of certain areas would help similar areas or destinations to develop their own tourism potential. The impacts of the development of the tourism is directly felt by those people who are directly or indirectly involved in tourism business. Therefore, the universe of the present study is limited to those areas where tourism is developed and those persons who are directly or indirectly connected with tourism business. The present study is exploratory