Cultural Tourism and Development

Dwelling on the cultural aspects of tourism, this book showshow tourism fosters peace and development. It looks at the significance oftourism in local development as well as the place of heritage tourism in India.The importance of marketing the uniqueness of small towns is emphasized. Thebook also deals with the management of festivals and tourism events. The issuesinvolved in the preservation and protection of historic buildings, preparing atourism master plan on a regional level, marketing crafts and other products totourists, relationship of tourismto development goals of South Asia, etc. are other topics dealt with in thisbook.