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Share your ideas & suggestions to boost Tourism in UT of J&K

Start Date: 30-03-2022
End Date: 31-07-2022

The UT of J&K offers beautiful verdant mountains and valleys, religious shrines and remote mountains – a paradise on earth. ...

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The UT of J&K offers beautiful verdant mountains and valleys, religious shrines and remote mountains – a paradise on earth.

The tourism sector is not just a leading source of employment, particularly for women and youth but it also provides opportunities for cohesion and socio-economic inclusion across the regions.

In this regard, J&K MyGov is inviting ideas and suggestions on how to boost tourism in the Union Territory of J&K which will not only encourage tourist inflow but will also support local communities. This would leave a long lasting contribution to strengthen the economy and give new opportunities to the people living here.

Last date of submission is 31st July, 2022.

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Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago

average daily expenditure and diminish seasonality. However, it will be shown below, that these measures, although beneficial economically, may further harm the environmental and socio-cultural aspects of the destination thus cause indirect costs, and should therefore be evaluated carefully.

Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago

“Economics is about how people make choices” and thus those choices should be influenced and guided as best as possible. Marketing strategies should be used in an attempt to increase visitor numbers, increase average length of stay

Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago

This should then decrease the repatriation of staff, and at the same time increase some of the local employees’ earnings possibility, which in turn should increase the multiplier effect, and may then as a result also benefit the socio-culture of the destinations.

Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago

This should then decrease the repatriation of staff, and at the same time increase some of the local employees’ earnings possibility, which in turn should increase the multiplier effect, and may then as a result also benefit the socio-culture of the destinations.

Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago

And arguably, another method for tourist managers would be to try and employ as much local staff as possible, ensure decent salaries, and if possible provide them with training in order to give them the chance for a promotion.

Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago

and generally are highest in MNE’s. Arguably therefore reducing the numbers of MNE’s in a tourist destination, will not only minimize leakages by lessening capital outflows and repatriation of staff, but automatically also increase the multiplier effect by getting tourists to spend more money in the local economy.

Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago

Leakages are cause by the need to support tourism6, in the forms of importing food and drinks, capital, technology, capital outflows through repatriation of staff, governmental investment in infrastructure to support tourism,

Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago

As analyzed above, it seems the main principals and methods of tourism management should be focused on trying to minimize the costs and leakages that come with tourism and to maximize the profits.

Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago

However the negative impacts are also significant and include costs for infrastructure development, opportunity costs and over-dependence of the destination on tourists, low skilled work, leakages and fluctuations in intake.

Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago

There can be many positive economical aspects of tourism, such as a better balance of payments and easier access to foreign exchange, the contribution to GNP, the multiplier effect, job creation, revenues for the government , direct and taxation revenues and contribution to GDP6.