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Natural Resources of Tourism [1]

Paper Code: 
MTB 201
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
 To Gain knowledge on existing and potential Natural Tourism resources of India
8.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I
Tourism Product: Definition, Salient features of tourism product, Product life cycle,
Local Time, GMT, Time zone, International Date line Tourism Resources of India: Types
and their geographical distribution, Climate.
10.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II
Wildlife Tourism in India- an introduction to wildlife tourism, existing Wildlife
sanctuaries and National Parks-In Northern, Southern , Eastern & Western part of India.
12.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III
Desert Tourism – India’s main Desert area and popular destinations .Existing trends in
desert tourism. Desert Circuit of Rajasthan.
Beach Tourism- Meaning, Pre requisites of Beach tourism, Important beach tourism
destinations in India- Goa ,Karnataka ,Kerala , Orissa.
8.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV
Island Tourism with reference to Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep. An
introduction to the destination, its tourism attractions, fairs and festivals, places of
interest, formalities to visit.
7.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V
Special interest Tourism or Niche Tourism.
Mountain Tourism –Tourist Resource potential in Mountains with reference to
Himalayas.
Essential Readings: 
Andaman and Nicobar Islands B.R Tamta
Coastal Tourism and Environment Ravi Bhushan Kumar
Lakshadweep Saigal
Tourism Products Manoj Dixit and Charusheela Dixit
References: 
Heritage Management Swarnakamal Bhowmik
International Tourism Management A.K.Bhatia
Nature and Scope of Tourism Praveen Sethi
Tourism Development in India V.P.Sati
Tourism Development :Principles and Practices Bhatia
Tourism Education Shashi Prabha,Sharma
Tourism in India : A case study Ram Acharya
Tourism & Travel Management Biswanath Ghosh
Academic Year: 
2019-2020 [2]

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