Tourism Development and its Impact on the Peripheral Society: A Case Study of Ladakh

Authors

  • Priyanka Singh Asst. Professor, Department of History of Art and Tourism Management, Faculty of Arts, Rajiv Gandhi South Campus, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
  • Ajay Kumar Singh Professor, Department of History of Art and Tourism Management, Faculty of Arts, Rajiv Gandhi South Campus, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12727/ajts.6.4

Keywords:

Tourism, Develoopment, Peripheral Society, Ladakh

Abstract

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.

Author Biographies

Priyanka Singh, Asst. Professor, Department of History of Art and Tourism Management, Faculty of Arts, Rajiv Gandhi South Campus, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and Tourism Management, Faculty of Arts, Rajiv Gandhi South Campus, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

Ajay Kumar Singh, Professor, Department of History of Art and Tourism Management, Faculty of Arts, Rajiv Gandhi South Campus, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Professor, Department of History of Art and Tourism Management, Faculty of Arts, Rajiv Gandhi South Campus, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

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2021-08-21

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Singh, P., & Kumar Singh, A. (2021). Tourism Development and its Impact on the Peripheral Society: A Case Study of Ladakh. Atna Journal of Tourism Studies, 6(1), 49-64. https://doi.org/10.12727/ajts.6.4

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