TOURISM PLANNING

TOURISM PLANNING Acc to A Kumar

“A set of activities to be carried out at the macro and micro levels in the tourism industry to develop and delineate such strategies as facilitate development of tourism around the world for the benefit of all the parties involved in it”.

Types of Tourism Planning

1. Spatial Tourism Planning

2. Sectoral Tourism Planning

3. Integrated Tourism Planning

4. Complex Tourism Planning

5. Centralized Tourism Planning

Spatial Tourism Planning • In this planning ,the space as well as the

environment of the tourist spot is scrutinized for creating good quality infrastructure and quantities at that spot.

• For ex:-Corbett National Park (Uttaranchal)

Sectoral Tourism Planning

• In this type of planning , the region to be developed is divided into various broad sections , called Sectors.

• These sectors are allocated resources.

• Their social , economic and environmental needs are assessed.

• The natural resources of each sector must be preserved and protected.

• These sectors must also coordinate with one another to achieve tourism synergy.

• For ex:- South - east Asia is a popular tourism sector of the World.

INTEGRATED TOURISM PLANNING

• In the type of tourism planning ,the sectors or parts of a tourists region are integrated so that the region becomes a hot destination.

• For ex:-Tourist sports of Mount Titlis, Lucern, Geneva and other parts of Switzerland are integrated.

• These have been developed to provide packages to tourists so that they could visit all these spots when they visit the Swiss Alps.

COMPLEX TOURISM PLANNING • When several regions are considered for the

purpose of planning , it is called Complex Tourism Planning.

• These regions may be located far away from one another

• These have to be developed on a comprehensive basis because the international tourist may be keen to visit all the tourist spots located in these regions.

Centralized Tourism Planning

• This type of planning is done by a single authority, usually the state or central government.

• For ex:-Renovation of the Red Fort for exposing more areas of its premises to tourists.

Decentralized Tourism Planning

The parties ,who are keen to develop a tourist spot, plan the execution of the activities of that spot.

They take the assistance of the government as well as finance from the local , regional or national banks to do so.

Government gives support and money to such firms.

For ex:-The first private airport of India has been developed at Nedumbassary (Tamil Nadu)

Tourism Planning At Three Levels • State-Level Tourism Planning

• Regional –Level Tourism Planning

• National – Level Tourism Planning

State –Level Planning

• The state government of all the states as well as the administrations of 7 union territories of India are responsible for developing tourism resources of their respective states or UT’s

• For ex:-State highway are maintained by the states.

• Lakes and ponds are cleaned or disinfected and dams are built by state govt in collaboration with union govt.

Regional – Level Tourism Planning • Such types of tourism planning are undertaken

by 2 or 3 states

• For ex:-Roads ,highways, rail links, air strips, artificial lakes, water , electricity, sewerage and other parts of vital infrastructure are created in collaboration with the union govt.

National –Level Tourism Planning

• Planning is done by the union Govt and its organs.

• Large amounts of money are needed to plan and execute such projects.

• For ex:- :- The golden Quadrilateral scheme of the union govt plans to provide a network of national highways that would connect northern, southern , eastern and western parts of the counters by the metallic roads.