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Given the growing importance of age old cultural and mythological tourism with many other related distinctive niches, the purpose of this paper is to contextualize the impacts of Shakti Peetham on such tourism practices in South Asia. This mythological context of Shakti Peetham has several importance in age old cultural tourism to contemporaneous s...
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India represents one of the oldest extant civilizations in the world. Odisha, the eastern state of India has rich source of unique ancient temples and ethnic culture. The ancient city Bhubaneswar is well known as the ‘Temple City.' Every year, good numbers of domestic and international tourists visit Odisha to experience this marvelous temple architecture of ancient period. These are the sources of knowledge for the scholars of ancient history, archaeology, heritage, Tourism studies and others. This article begins with the understanding of ancient temples existing till today in some spiritual places of coastal Odisha, mainly in the golden triangle of eastern India. Socio-economic development of the local community and protection of their culture are also discussed here. This chapter analyzes the role and importance of ancient temples and cultural heritage of Odisha for the development and promotion of tourism business in the state.
Given the growing importance of the conservation and preservation of animals and other species, the purpose of the chapter is to review the ritualistic killing and cruelty of wild and/or domestic animals in religious tourism in South Asia. Purposively, the search engine Google Scholar has been considered for searching the most cited paid and unpaid articles based on the keywords. Key themes from the literature focus on varying region-specific cruelty-conservation paradoxes for future policy issues, business scopes, and animal utilitarianism in tourism, along with new responsible and sustainable orientation have been highlighted. Also, a total of twenty-three statements derived from such reviews are verified through an opinion survey of 200 pilgrims in Hindu temple sites, keeping in view the concentration of temple sites where animal sacrifice is still in vogue. Through the factor-wise mean scores reform-oriented contemporary outlook of temple authority and priest association and socio-religious background are of immediate recommendations for the policy issues.