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“Developing a Comprehensive Tourism Policy for Arunachal Pradesh”

Nirupama soundararajan, arindam goswami and anupam hazarika.

Tourism is one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy, and the economic achievements of tourism are significant. Tourism plays a key role in global economic activity, job creation, export revenue and domestic value addition, and directly contributes to a country’s gross domestic product (GDP), employment rate and other allied industries. Over the years, the tourist footfall in Northeast India has grown only marginally and the individual growth of Arunachal Pradesh’s tourism is negligible. The share of tourism of Arunachal Pradesh to total northeast tourism has risen marginally from 3.77 per cent in 2009 to 4.65 per cent in 2017. Pahle India Foundation along with the help of Department of Tourism (Government of Arunachal Pradesh) aims to draft a tourism policy that is dynamic, inclusive, and sustainable and contributes to developing livelihood, creating employment, value creation for business and develop a unique identity for Arunachal Pradesh as a tourist destination.

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Sustainable Ethnic Tourism Development in Arunachal Pradesh

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Sustainable tourism is a new paradigm of development that thrives to conserve and sustain the natural, social, cultural and built environment by involving the local community, which in return contributes to their economic upliftment. This concept of planned tourism can be applied in presenting the ethnicity of local communities as tourism product for special interest tourists. Arunachal Pradesh, a state in the north eastern India, is the home to around 26 major tribes and over 110 sub-tribes with rich ethnic and cultural diversity. One of the unique features of the tribal people of Arunachal Pradesh is their close relationship with nature which is imbibed in the cultural beliefs and their indigenous traditional knowledge of conservation and management. This chapter tries to assess the viability of the sustainable lifestyle of the state's two major tribes, namely, the Monpa tribe and the Apatani tribe, as tourism product, who are part of the key tourist circuits of Arunachal Pradesh, namely, Tezpur-Bhalukpong-Bomdila-Tawang and Itanagar-Ziro-Daporizo-Along-Pasighat. To examine the relationship between sustainable tourism development and community participation, data have been collected through secondary and primary sources and a mixed method, including both qualitative and quantitative approach, is used in the study. It is found that ethnic tourism has great potential for the conservation and preservation of cultural and traditional expressions of these communities by making the showcase of ethnic resources economically viable.

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