Open AccessTourism Development and its Impact on the Peripheral Society: A Case Study of Ladakh
Author(s) -
Prabhakar Singh,
Singh Kumar Ajay
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
atna journal of tourism studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0975-3281
DOI - 10.12727/ajts.6.4
Subject(s) - tourism , sustainable development , tourism geography , sustainable tourism , ecotourism , economic impact analysis , business , economic geography , economic growth , development economics , political science , economy , geography , regional science , economics , law , microeconomics
Tourism has strongly been considered as an agent of change and widely used as a major tool for achieving the goals of development. Sinc the prefix, ‘sustainable’ has been added to the term development and subsequently applied to all major economic sectors, the dimensions of development stretched to a greater extent than before and desired goals of development have been redefined. Tourism industry, often regarded as a world’s largest and fastest growing economic sector has also come under the diameters of sustainable development. The impact of tourism is not limited to the economic sector only. This industry has proven to be a strong stimulus for socio-cultural changes too. These impacts become more apparent in remote and peripheral regions where the, societies are traditional and closed and where the cultural elements are preserved in authentic form.
In this paper, an attempt has been made to examine the nature of tourism development in Ladakh, which is a peripheral region and explain how socio-cultural changes occur in this region since the introduction of tourism. Further, assumptions have been made through discussion regarding the future impact and the nature of tourism development in Ladakh.