Tourism Resources of India

By PROF. H. RAJASHEKAR | University of Mysore, Manasagangotri

Learners enrolled: 723

India represents one of the oldest civilisations of the world and offers rich cultural heritage and variety. India is more remarkable for her extreme diversity of physical features. Its population represents a veritable museum of races representing almost all ethnic groups of the world with their characteristic features. Nature and history both have made India one of the most attractive tourist countries of the world. It offers everything in a rich variety of mountains and hills, valleys, highest peaks, sea beaches, landscape, scenic beauty, monuments and memorials, traditional art and dances, fairs and festivals and many other things have made the country a mosaic of living traditions. Tourism needs variety and India with its vast dimensions and diversity offers to every class of visitors something not found elsewhere.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Management Studies
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	15 Jul 2019
End Date :	30 Sep 2019
Enrollment Ends :	10 Sep 2019
Exam Date :	09 Nov 2019 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week – 1 | 1. Indian Tourism- General Introduction | 2.Understanding Tourism Products Part I | 3.Understanding Tourism Products Part II |

Week – 2 | 4. Managing Tourism Products Part I | 5.Managing Tourism Products Part II | 6.Tourism Products of India part I |

Week – 3 | 7. Tourism Products of India part II | 8.Tourism Products of India Part III | 9.Tourism Products of India Part IV |

Week – 6 | 19. Impact of Cultural Tourism | 20. Heritage & Pilgrim Destinations of North India | 21. Spiritual and Heritage destinations of South India | 22. Spiritual and Heritage Tourism in West and Central India |

Week - 7 | 23. Important Tourist destinations of East India | 24. Basic Properties of Ecology | 25. Tourism and Ecology Linkage |

26. Global Concern |

Week – 8 | 27. Nature based destinations of North India | 28. Hill stations and wild life tourism in South India | 29. Hill stations , Beaches & wild life tourism in West and Central India |

Week – 10 | 34. Business of Ecotourism | 35. Tourism & Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) | 36. Ecological Planning |

37. Tourism and Sustainable Development |

Week – 11 | 38. Tourism Destination Carrying capacity (HUMAN POPULATIONS) | 39. Indian Tourism Policy, Luxury Trains |

40. International Tourism Products Part – I | 41. International Tourism Products Part – II |

Books and references

Reading material	Author & Year	Type of publication (article/notes)	Content Abstract	Number of pages
Tourism Product	Rajamanickam Thandavan, Girish Revathy. (2006)	Text Book	Tourism resources of India	150
Tourism Products of India: A National Perspective	Robinet Jacob, P.Mahadevan, Sindhu Joseph (2012)	Text Book	A fresh perspective on the various tourism resources of India.	327
Tourism: operations and Management	Sunetra Roday (2009)	Text Book	Various types of tourism, tourism infrastructure and sustainable tourism	480
Indian Tourism: Tourist Places of India	Anurag Mathur (2016)	Text Book	Indian Culture, History, Heritage, Arts, Architecture. complete information about Major Tourist Places of India. Museums in India	478
Tourism in India: Planning and Development	Iqbal and Ashraf (2006)	Text Book	Tourism planning and policies of India and in the states of India	222
Domestic Tourism in India	D. S. Bhardwaj (1998)	Text book	macro to micro studies on specific destinations	310
Ecology, Environment And Tourism	L.K. Singh (2008 )	Text book	relationship between environment and tourism , carrying capacity	330

Instructor bio

Prof . H . Rajashekar, Course coordinator, working as a Professor in Commerce and Tourism dept in University of Mysore, having 27 years teaching , research and industry experience. he has popularly known as Indian academic icon in the field of e-education and technology. He published 92 Research papers, 8 Books at national and International level and 27 Ph D awardees. He recipient of 2 National Awards as BHARAT GOURAV AWARD for outstanding services, Achievements, and Contributions by India International Friendship Society, New Delhi and BHARAT EXCELLENCE AWARD for outstanding and extra-ordinary achievements in chosen fields of activity and services rendered to promote greater friendship and India-International Co-operation by Friendship Forum, New Delhi. he has subject expert for the subject Tourism e-content development under NME-ICT project of CEC-UGC, and MOOCS through the Educational Multimedia Research Centre, University of Mysore, Mysuru.

Course certificate

30% for in course Assessment & 70% of end-term Proctored exam. The Certificates will be available after Qualifying in the end-term online Proctored exam.

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