Measuring Economic Impact of Tourism Growth in Shekhawati Region

Authors

  • Palak Bhardwaj SSBB Govt. College,
  • Priyanka Kumari Pacific University

Keywords:

MEASURING, ECONOMIC IMPACT, TOURISM, SHEKHAWATI REGION

Abstract

Tourism is composed not only of leisure travelers but also other groups such as business travelers, and these non-leisure travelers often act and spend in the same way as leisure travelers. Tourism and travel professionals know that their industry is exposed to political, health, and economic undulations. The current study is largely empirical in approach. Including all the stated objectives the study also focuses on the analysis, for this purpose the responses about the shekhawati tour and their activities was collected from tourists during their visit to this land of Havalies. For this purpose the views of 500 respondents were taken on various Economic
impacts at shekhawati region on 9 variables. The multiple regression analysis tools were used to identify the variables which satisfied the tourists related with the Economic impact. The respondents believed that Prices of the commodities have increased due to tourism, it has created job opportunity, It would be a shame if the local population of Shekhawati region does not benefit more from the development of Tourism and Putting a local community members in tourism business management could have a negative impact on service quality and experience tourism.

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Author Biographies

Palak Bhardwaj, SSBB Govt. College,

Assistant Professor
Lecturer, Department of Geography, SSBB Govt. College,
Sangwara, Dungarpur (Rajasthan),

Priyanka Kumari, Pacific University

Research Scholar
Pacific University, Udaipur.

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Published

2016-03-31

How to Cite

Bhardwaj, P., & Kumari, P. (2016). Measuring Economic Impact of Tourism Growth in Shekhawati Region. International Journal For Research In Business, Management And Accounting, 2(1), 58–66. Retrieved from https://ijrbma.com/index.php/bma/article/view/556