Inclusive Tourism Adopted to Geosites: A Study in the Ajodhya Hills of West Bengal in India

IF 1.2 Q3 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM
Avijit Ghosh, Rahul Mandal, Premangshu Chakrabarty
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Inclusive tourism is a specialized branch of tourism emphasizing the inclusion of the disabled, who otherwise could not participate in tourism, despite having wealth to spend for leisure and recreation. There exists a research gap in analyzing scope of geotourism in this context. Disabilities affecting access to geosites affect geotourism since most of the geosites all over the world are situated in difficult terrain from the stand point of accessibility. It is inclusive tourism, also called accessible tourism, that facilities the consumers to reach the desired destinations. The present study assesses such destinations in Ajodhya hills, located in West Bengal, India, a geotourist’s paradise in terms of rarity and diversity, aesthetic appeal, and cultural value. The study derives an accessibility–attraction model to identify inclusive tourism planning priorities from tourism marketing perspectives. Extensive field work followed by the application of qualitative methods of data analysis yield results dedicated to sustainable geotourism development. The discussion reveals the scope of developing specific facilities, using GIS, which encourage physically challenged people to visit geosites and simultaneously fulfil the objective of guiding planners and policy makers to identify and develop more suitable sites for introducing inclusive tourism facilities.
采用全包旅游的地质遗址:在印度西孟加拉邦阿乔德亚山的研究
全纳旅游是旅游业的一个专门分支,强调残疾人的包容性,他们本来无法参与旅游,尽管有财富用于休闲和娱乐。在这一背景下,地质旅游的范围分析存在研究空白。从可达性的角度来看,由于世界上大多数地质遗址位于困难地形,因此影响地质旅游的残疾影响了地质旅游。它是包容性旅游,也称为无障碍旅游,为消费者到达期望的目的地提供便利。本研究评估了位于印度西孟加拉邦的阿约迪亚山的这些目的地,从稀有和多样性、审美吸引力和文化价值的角度来看,这里是地质旅游者的天堂。本研究从旅游营销的角度推导出可达性-吸引力模型,以确定包容性旅游规划的优先级。广泛的实地工作,随后应用定性的数据分析方法,产生了致力于可持续地质旅游发展的结果。讨论揭示了利用地理信息系统开发特定设施的范围,它鼓励身体有障碍的人参观地质遗址,同时实现指导规划者和决策者确定和开发更合适的地点以引入包容性旅游设施的目标。
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Tourism and Hospitality Management-Croatia
Tourism and Hospitality Management-Croatia HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-
CiteScore
1.90
自引率
23.10%
发文量
33
审稿时长
15 weeks
期刊介绍: Tourism and Hospitality Management is an international, multidisciplinary, open access journal, aiming to promote and enhance research in all fields of the tourism and hospitality industry. It publishes double-blind reviewed papers and encourages an interchange between tourism and hospitality researchers, educators and managers. Editors of Tourism and Hospitality Management strongly promote research integrity and aim to prevent any type of scientific misconduct, such as: fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, redundant publication and authorship problems. All submitted manuscripts are checked using Crossref Similarity Check (iThenticate). Nurturing a scientifically based approach to research, the journal publishes original papers along with empirical research and theoretical articles that contribute to the conceptual development of tourism and hospitality management. Editors look particularly for articles about new trends, challenges and developments, as well as the application of new ideas that are likely to affect the tourism and hospitality industry. The general criteria for the acceptance of articles are: contribution to the scientific knowledge in the field of tourism and hospitality management, scientifically reliable research methodology, relevant literature review and quality of the English language.
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