Promoting Heritage Tourism: Issues and Challenges

Contents: 1. Heritage tourism and its impact on community/Vandana Goyal. 2. Brand management in tourism industry in India/Swikrati Singh. 3. Heritage and hospitality/Gagan Ramtani. 4. Criteria for selection of heritage destination: in view of safety and security of international tourists/Lazy Doma Bhutia. 5. Major threats faced by Indian heritage monuments/Pradeep K. Lahari. 6. Role of food in promoting heritage tourism: a case study of Gwalior/M.K. Dash. 7. Cultural and heritage management: opportunities and challenges in reference to Gwalior Fort/Monika Saksena and Divya Pandey. 8. Heritage home stays: a potential vehicle for catapulting Gwalior into a heritage tourism hot spot/Joseph Soy Mathew. 9. Heritage tourism: role of historical monuments in promoting Gwalior as a tourism destination/Pramendra Singh. 10. Expectations of tourism from Gwalior as a tourism destination/Neha Mehendele. 11. Agra beyond Taj Mahal: prospects and challenges for cultural heritage of Agra/Amit K. Mathur and Divya Pandey. 12. Exploring ethnic heritage of Himachal Pradesh/Arun Sharma and Suman Sharma. 13. Potentials of heritage tourism in Himachal Pradesh: a case study of heritage tourist attractions in Shimla hill station/Arvind Kumar. 14. Blissful Bihar: a landmark of ancient culture and heritage tourism/U.N. Shukla and Sharad Kumar Kulshreshtha. 15. Economic development by rural tourism in Rajasthan: problems and suggestions/Shubi Dadheech. 16. Let them be themselves before they actually extinct/Rashmita Singh. 17. Patachitra of Odisha: a living heritage of Raghurajpur Village/Sadeep Dubey. 18. Wildlife heritage and eco tourism: prospects and problems in Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand/Vinay Rana. 19. Sustainable tourism development and its strategy in Haridwar/Om Vedanti and R.A. Sharma. 20. Dynamics of complex relationship with local communities at heritage sites/Chandar Badan Singh. 21. Promotion of heritage based tourism destinations: a case study/Amit Tiwari.…