Suneel Kumar

University of Delhi | DU · Shaheed Bhagat Singh College

Ecotourism has garnered substantial scholarly and public interest as an environmentally conscious and sustainable variant of tourism with the primary objectives of fostering conservation efforts, facilitating community advancement, and safeguarding cultural heritage. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the impacts of ecotourism on susta...

The chapter presents an overview of the tourism industry in India and Himachal Pradesh. The tourist sector in Himachal Pradesh is one of the most important functions in the state’s economy. In the first place, it talks about the progression of tourist arrival and foreign exchange earnings acquired by the country through the tourism sector. Then, it...

This chapter presents the perception of the tourists regarding the development of rural tourism in Himachal Pradesh. From the data gathered from a sample of 400 tourists with the help of a structured questionnaire, tourists’ knowledge regarding the tourism products of the state is assessed. Questions such as related to their reason to visit, the pr...

This section presents the research design, provides a description and justification of the methodological approach and methods used, and details the research framework for the study. In addition, it presents the research objectives and highlights the research hypothesis; discusses about the research area, sampling techniques used, and the sample si...

The most significant concern of our time is now global climate change, which threatens the safety and lives of weaker societies all around the world. On local populations, particularly those living close to high-risk-prone zones like coastal areas and mountain regions, the expected impact of climatic unpredictability will be significant. The indige...

Purpose This article analyzes research on digital transformation in the tourism sector, providing insights into leading work, authors, journals, trends and future research opportunities. However, limited in-depth research exists on this topic, and the existing studies lack an understanding of its development, scope and relevant areas. Design/metho...

The aim of this chapter is to examine research trends in sports tourism and sustainability. Sports tourism is a form of travelling from one region to another to attend a sporting event of any kind. Sports tourism is an emerging new category of tourism that has grown rapidly over the past decade. Properly developed and regulated, tourism can help me...

The chapter provide an overview of the potential opportunities for homestay family businesses in India. This study also highlighted some major challenges associated with the concept of homestay in India. Homestays have long been popular in tourist areas. It offers a welcoming and comfortable atmosphere for travelers who are far from home. Homeowner...

The paper aims to review current trends and future research opportunities in the research field of smart tourism. Based on the bibliometric analysis, this study provides an overview of 151 smart tourism papers that were produced between 2013 and 2021. The data were analyzed and visualized with the software VOS (viewer). The study results revealed t...

Himachal Pradesh, located in Himalaya, India, is planning large-scale mountain tourism challenging the optimum usage of environmental resources. This manuscript employs the system approach and Total Interpretative Structural Modeling (TISM) to discuss the main challenges and solutions to more sustainable mountain tourism planning and development in...

This article explores how successfully emerging economies, especially India, can compete in the Medical Tourism (MT) sector. Increasing globalization in this price-sensitive industry presents a new competitive potential for emerging nations like India. The paper discusses the possibilities of MT for emerging economies, particularly India, which are...

This paper aims to analyse the relationship between factors influencing the travel intentions of the spiritual tourist. The research design comprises three segments, i.e., identifying factors from the literature, conducting interviews with the academic experts and managers, and analysing the responses recorded. The Interpretive Structural Modelling...

During the global pandemic, the worldwide tourism and hospitality sector has affected severely, and robotics can be a good instrument for providing significant physical distance during the pandemic as humans avoid physical interaction. In this chapter, examination has been performed on whether it would be helpful or whether it will have adverse eff...

The systematization of scientific expositions and methodology for exploring the Internet of Things (IoT) and tourism penetration every day reveals that researchers have made significant contributions to enhance this field of study. This article outlines the scholarly discussion on altering Tourism industry procedures in the face of the rapid rise o...

As the world wrestles with the pandemic and the travel industry comes to a standstill, stories via online media are surfacing that guarantee untamed life is getting back to isolated urban areas and that the Earth is recuperating itself. Millions are confronting the possibility of joblessness, a worldwide financial downturn is on the cards, medical...

Foreign trade has a metamorphic impact on the GDP performance and, therefore, on the future growth of an economy. It influences the technology, employment, and resource utilization. It is atruism that a country's economic standing depends upon the magnitude of its economic relations with other countries. Ultimately, it leads to worldwide cultural,...

The growth in smart communities has resulted from advanced technology interventions in daily life. All parts of regular activities, such as administration work, transportation, and agricultural production, are automated in some form or another and directly accessed via electronic objects. There is now the smart cities concept, where advanced and in...

Every aspect of the tourist experience has been transformed and automated due to the recent development and application of advanced technology like Artificial Intelligence and robotic services. Tourism and hospitality have seen tremendous changes due to the transformation brought about by the growth of information and communication technologies (IC...

The world population is tremendously growing and is putting a lot of pressure on our finite resources. Sustainable development is a crucial part of each new worldwide plan; the world has been attempting to set up a more sustainable way and different objectives and targets have been set to accomplish this. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) se...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyze the interrelationship between factors conducive to rural tourism development. This touristic segment has enormous potential but still lacks consistent means and measures to ensure rural tourism's holistic development in India. Design/methodology/approach The study identified 14 factors, of which nine are...

This study aims to carry out a systematic review of the literature on the impact of technology in the tourism industry and its application in rural tourism research to serve the objective of socio-economic development. Research articles were selected from journals indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, or those that are listed in the Australian Busines...

The aim of the present study is to identify the factors that propel tourism industry to opt for digitalization and establish a hierarchical relationship among them. The paper further seeks to address how digitalization impacts various stakeholders in tourism industry. Also, various challenges that are arising in course of digitalization in tourism...

The purpose of this research paper is to identify the different factors that affect the length of stay of tourists in India and developing a hierarchical relationship between those factors. The factors are grouped into different classifications which will help policymakers to focus on specially identified groups. Interpretive Structural Modeling (I...

Purpose: The purpose of this research paper is to formulate strategies for holistic development of tourism industry in Himachal Pradesh, a sate of India. Because of inequitable growth, certain districts such as Shimla, Kullu and Kangra are now overburdened with tourist, whereas, tourist inflow in districts such as Lahaul & Spiti, Kinnaur, Chamba is...

Tourism is associated with words such as leisure, happiness and enjoyment. Tourism industry provides services which give some sort of leisure to the people. The preferences of tourists have evolved over the years. With people now focusing more on alternative tourism, rather than traditional mass tourism, development of Niche Tourism is imperative....

As the tourism industry is flourishing globally, it has exhausted the current tourism product offerings of every nation. To remain competitive and keep on attracting more foreign as well as domestic tourists, countries need to develop more avenues which could be provided as alternative tourism products. Moreover, threat of sustainability has increa...

The Himalayan region is a popular tourist destination. It attracts massive inflows of tourist in this region round the year. Most of the tourist comes here either for adventures or pilgrimage purpose. Tourism is a multidimensional crucial development parameter of the world economy. Travel & Tourism’s impact on the economic and social development of...

Travel & Tourism is a truly global economic activity – one which takes place in destinations across the world, from leading capital cities and smaller town and villages in rural and coastal area, to some of the remotest points on the planet. Tourism acts as a catalyst to economic, social and physical development of the state. It is the commercial a...

Pilgrimage is one of the oldest and most basic forms of population mobility known to human society, and its political, social, cultural and economic implications have always been, and continue to be, substantial. The size and economic significance of tourism industry have attracted the attention of many countries in actively promoting tourism as a...

The Himalayan region in India remains a popular tourist destination as it attracts massive inflow of tourist round the year. The present study is focused on Uttarakhand as it provides both adventures and pilgrimage tourism along with educational tourism which made it one of the most important regions of Himalaya in terms of tourism. The state of Ut...

The main objective of the research paper is to examine the status, scenario and growth rate of tourism industry in India and Uttarakhand in particular. The socio economic impact and effect of Himalayan Tsunami on the tourism industry in the state of Uttarakhand has also been covered in the present study. During 2012 the foreign tourist data was jus...