TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN GUJARAT: OPPORTUNITIES

Tourism is the act of travel mainly for relaxation and purposes. WTO (World Trade Organization) defines tourists as the people who “travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business, recreation and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited.” Tourism development is very crucial for every country. The tourism industry gives a massive contribution to the GDP of any country with foreign currencies. Thus, the researcher has been selected as a research topic of Tourism Development. The researcher has been selected as a sample as the Gujarat state of India for a research work. The researcher has been selected as secondary data from various websites. The researcher has been used five parameters for data analysis, which define Gujarat Tourism Development. These parameters are: 1) Contribution of tourism to GDP of Gujarat, 2) Foreign tourists of Gujarat, 3) Domestic tourists of Gujarat, 4) Amount released under Swadesh Darshan Scheme for Gujarat, 5) Amount released under PRASAD Scheme for Gujarat. For hypothesis testing, the Chi-square test would be applied. A period of the study work is of 4 years from 2016-17 to 2019-20. The sample size is to be selected randomly and limited only to the Gujarat state. It is analytical research work.

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Keywords: Gujarat Tourism, Chi-square Test.


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