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Rural Tourism
INTRODUCTION
After independence government was focusing on development of the key areas like agriculture, industry, infrastructure, etc in rural India. Tourism was never seen as a potential business, it was growing at its own space. Tourist arrived to India increased to 4.43 million in 2006, up 14.2 per cent from 3.92 million in 2005
INTRODUCTION
Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) during the Month of January, 2012 was 6.81 lakh as compared to FTAs of 6.24 lakh during the month of January, 2011 and 5.69 lakh in January, 2010. The trend of positive growth in FTAs observed during the year 2011 continued in January, 2012 too with a growth rate of 9.2%. The growth rate of 9.2% in January 2012 over January 2011 was higher than 5.2% growth rate observed in December, 2011 over December 2010.
Objectives
Objectives of the study are (1) To understand the potential of rural tourism, (2) To find out the impact of rural tourism to our society (3) To identify the challenges and opportunities in rural tourism (4) To identify the essential elements for development of rural tourism.
Methodology
The present study has been conducted in Pune, the sample respondents comprising both tourists from different socio-economic category of society. The survey was conducted using the convenient sampling method. Primary data was collected from 150 respondents by administering them a detailed questionnaire
Research Design
Two basic techniques are used for research, i.e., observation method and survey method