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Sustainable tourism for economic development: a study in India and Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.author Jamaldeen, Athambawa
dc.contributor.author Chatterjee, Shankar
dc.contributor.author Paramasivan, G.
dc.date.accessioned 2020-01-23T09:08:45Z
dc.date.available 2020-01-23T09:08:45Z
dc.date.issued 2019-11-25
dc.identifier.citation 8th Annual International Research Conference - 2019, on "Sustainability through Business, Humanities and Technologies", pp.297-303. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-955-627-195-9
dc.identifier.uri http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/4308
dc.description.abstract Tourism is a sector which sustains and facilitates without creating any type of pollution. All the countries in the world irrespective of developed or developing have been giving importance to tourism. Global tourism is now an industry as it fetches foreign exchange as well as creates employment in each country where tourism is given importance. Tourism has been scaling up with the space of time, despite few issues. According to the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO, International tourists’ movement has scaled up to 7.0 per cent in 2017 indicating highest increase after 2009 global economic crisis. In the present days tourism is the world’s third largest export category. The greatest advantage is that tourism facilitates to create jobs, enhances exports etc. All these issues have been discussed at length here. In addition, in this research article few cases, from India and Sri Lanka, where the authors (at least one of the authors) have visited are presented. The cases may be considered as innovative tourism. Further, the contribution of tourism sector in these countries both as employment generation and foreign exchange earnings have been highlighted here portraying sustainable economic development. So the research paper is based both on primary and secondary study. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Management and Commerce, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka. en_US
dc.subject Economic development en_US
dc.subject India en_US
dc.subject Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject Sustainable en_US
dc.subject Tourism en_US
dc.title Sustainable tourism for economic development: a study in India and Sri Lanka en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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