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How may tourism in hilly areas of India be developed as an important source of economy?

  • UPSC 2017
  • Industry

The question is prescriptive: how hill tourism becomes an economic base. Tourism gives India about 5.22 per cent of GDP, 84.6 million jobs and USD 35.02 billion of foreign exchange (2024), but in the hills it is captured by a few colonial stations for ten weeks a year.

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  • 1. Product diversification beyond the hill station
  • 2. Connectivity, the binding constraint
  • 3. Breaking the season
  • 4. Regulation as a development tool
  • 5. Local enterprise and the multiplier
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