APPLICATION OF DESTINATION DISCONTINUITY MODEL THROUGH COMPETENCY MAPPING IN UTTARAKASHI AND CHAMOLI DISTRICT OF UTTARAKHAND

The Great Himalayan Range in the region of India and Nepal is a prime tourist region as it keeps on wooing lakhs of tourist in the Himalayan states situated between India and Nepal. The most important reason behind this is, its world-class attribute, therefore, most of the tourist as well as excursionist come here for many types of tourism whether it is Medical, Yoga, Spa, Adventure, Religion, Buddhist or Hindu pilgrimage purpose. Therefore, tourism here is a major source of employment opportunity not only because it has both backward and forward linkage but also for its easiness to operate in rural as well as in far remote domain which also make it more interesting topic to research among researchers and scholars. Here we have opted for Uttarakhand as it provides above mentioned various types of tourism which made it as one the most attractive region for tourism not only in complete Himalayan Region but also throughout World. 

Uttarakhand is a hill state with beautiful flora and fauna as well as with important pilgrimage spot which attracts tourist round the year. There are many incidences of man-made as well as natural calamities which took many lives and now all these activities are leading to a decrease in the magnetism of Uttrakhand among other States in Himalayan region. Therefore in this paper we will try to solve the problems related to tourism in Uttarakhand State of the Himalayan region by grasping the basic Notion of destination development with destination life cycle along with the help of competency mapping and it applies for the development of Destination Discontinuity model in this state.

Keywords: Himalayan Tourism, Competency Mapping, Destination Development.


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