A SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS IN PILGRIMAGE TOURISM IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR :A CASE STUDY ON FOREIGN TOURISTS

MUSSA MOHAMMAD; MAMIL KUMAR

Volume : V, Issue : X, October - 2016

A SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS IN PILGRIMAGE TOURISM IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR :A CASE STUDY ON FOREIGN TOURISTS

Mussa Mohammad, Mamil Kumar

Abstract :

Pilgrimage as a type of journey offer an opportunity for the public to vacation holy places and is a characteristic ordinary to less or more whole societies. The earth of Jammu is sacred by the holy continue of a lot of large saints and religious soul. Mata Vaishno Devi,amar nath are the mainly famous holy place located in the lap of Tirkuta hill of Jammu area. Every day lacs of devotees since every corner of the country as well as beginning diverse parts of the earth pay the obeisance at place of worship. The present job is an effort to study the socio-economic impacts of pilgrimage tourism in jammu and its neighboring area and also learn the allocate of this pilgrimage area in the condition of economy.Pilgrimage, whether spiritual or worldly, is experiencing resurrection in the region of the world. This include the motive for pilgrimage, actions during the pilgrimage, and the in�uence of going to places of interest on it.The result demonstrate that the sightseer people range oadly as of particularly spiritual traditional pilgrims, through "conventional" pilgrim-tourists to worldly tourists. The features of present pilgrims can be represent on a stage that might be describe as worldly versus spiritual, and tourism in opposition to pilgrimage. This typology moreover offer a copy for the growth of the pilgrimage site. The answer emphasize the rising junction of conventional pilgrimage and present tourism, which include a great deal in ordinary. as well as, this explore emphasize the increasing nexus of holy site, humanity, political affairs, philosophy, and culture. This article explain and ropes the thought that the �nancial impacts of spiritual sightseeing must not be deserted or underestimate, although religious institutions have usually attempted to downplay this in the history. as well, the paper argue that belief and tourism have much in general.