A STUDY OF TOURISM IN PALGHAR DISTRICT OF MAHARASHTRA: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

 

Tourism is one of the offshoots of business. Tourism sector is nature-based that uncovers the rural life, culture, art and heritage at rural as well as urban locations, thereby favouring the local communities socially and economically. This tourism has created an impact on the economy, socio-cultural on one hand and another hand is a good scope of employment. Palghar district has natural beauty with the coastal area, hill stations, spiritual places, and historical places. The place belongs to the Adivasi community which is most of the rural region. Purpose of the study to preserve the heritage places, persuades the people to tourism. The study is focused on infrastructure development program with the increasing employment around this tourist location and promote local, socio-economic and cultural changes and increasing living standard of the local community, and find out how to accelerate tourism in post Covid-19.

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Keywords: Tourism, Palghar, Covid-19, Coastal, Spiritual, Historical, Konkan, Transport..


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