What Tourism Gives To Ladakh
What Tourism Gives to Ladakh?
Ladakh is an interesting subject to study but its inaccessibility to us and sort of a disinterest for it among us Kashmiri students makes it a challenging and a daunting task to have a thorough research conducted on it. It was obviously not so easy for a research scholar like me to go for a study on Ladakh. Primary focus of research was tourism and impact of tourism on Ladakhi society. Ladakh proved to be a great subject for the research program due to its potential i.e. the region (Ladakh) which offers a tremendous scope for tourism development particularly in terms of specific tourism like religious and adventure tourism. This is almost quite unique with this region. There are parallels to various world famous tourist destinations like Kashmir, but Ladakh region is almost unique and has wide attractions, viz., famous monasteries, beautiful topography for adventure tourism and so on. Though much has been written on tourism in general but very less has been talked about the impact of tourism on the socio-cultural life of a particular region. Let us take Ladakh as an instance here. Tourism’s social and cultural impacts are often difficult to measure, as to a large extent, they are indirect. Apart from obvious and visible effects on the economy and the physical environment, tourism can contribute to social and cultural changes in host societies, including changes in values systems, traditional lifestyles, family relationships, individual behaviors or community structures. Ladakh is the most remote region of the state of J & K, a barren, rain less area, but it is open to the outsiders, or at least as open as its geography permits. Its capital is Leh town which is located just north of the Indus river and is 257 Km east of Srinagar. Tourism in this region has flourished in the last 2 decades. This region can only provide the original setup, original setup consists of landscape, climate, religion, local tradition,
Ladakh is an interesting subject to study but its inaccessibility to us and sort of a disinterest for it among us Kashmiri students makes it a challenging and a daunting task to have a thorough research conducted on it. It was obviously not so easy for a research scholar like me to go for a study on Ladakh. Primary focus of research was tourism and impact of tourism on Ladakhi society. Ladakh proved to be a great subject for the research program due to its potential i.e. the region (Ladakh) which offers a tremendous scope for tourism development particularly in terms of specific tourism like religious and adventure tourism. This is almost quite unique with this region. There are parallels to various world famous tourist destinations like Kashmir, but Ladakh region is almost unique and has wide attractions, viz., famous monasteries, beautiful topography for adventure tourism and so on. Though much has been written on tourism in general but very less has been talked about the impact of tourism on the socio-cultural life of a particular region. Let us take Ladakh as an instance here. Tourism’s social and cultural impacts are often difficult to measure, as to a large extent, they are indirect. Apart from obvious and visible effects on the economy and the physical environment, tourism can contribute to social and cultural changes in host societies, including changes in values systems, traditional lifestyles, family relationships, individual behaviors or community structures. Ladakh is the most remote region of the state of J & K, a barren, rain less area, but it is open to the outsiders, or at least as open as its geography permits. Its capital is Leh town which is located just north of the Indus river and is 257 Km east of Srinagar. Tourism in this region has flourished in the last 2 decades. This region can only provide the original setup, original setup consists of landscape, climate, religion, local tradition,