Monday, 03 April 2017
Prospects of Tourism
Given such a shining profile and
prospects of tourism. India has not fully leveraged the advantage hitherto, as
other have such as the South East Asian economics of Indonesia, Thailand,
Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore etc The tourism sector is largely seen as mere
contributor towards foreign exchange
reserves and employment generation. Tourism goes far beyond these alone. Its development
has a wider and deeper rationale . The objectives of poverty alleviation and sustainable human development can be met in
coherence along with tourism development.
A boon to the local community
The local community stakeholders
will become the beneficiaries of tourism provided they are made aware of the prospects
and benefits of tourism development in the are. If they are engaged to promote tourism,
it will boost their quality of life with the additional income they will
receive from this engagement. This engagement can be nurtured and developed by
the government, as a part of its many poverty-alleviating programmes; the
difference here being that instead of being only recipients of allowances. The locals
can be provided with a platform whereby they can sell articles of handicrafts,
such as jewellery, carpets, antiques-wooden and metallic, etc;; directly to
customers without being harassed by middlemen and brokers.
Generates communal harmony
Tourism can also be seen as a way
forward to promote pluralism and multiculturalism, which can further help to
build and spread feeling of secularism and communal harmony among diverse communities
of India. The most salient features of our Indian culture or value system is
the respect for plurality, diversity and inclusivity. We are a population of
over 1.2 billion people making a diverse multicultural or plural society with
different beliefs, faiths, languages, dress codes, food habits and what not. All
the religious places are visited by tourists, even local nationals, either as
pilgrimage of a holiday trip, There must be change of attitude among the people
that these places have only religious connotations. They must be made aware of
the fact these places, whether they are religiously or historically important,
provide deeper insights into the evolution of our great tradition, culture and
history over the ages. They will not only help in creating integration and harmony
but also broaden our understanding of history and culture which will further
help in promoting the ethos of brotherhood and secularism in the country .
The right way to strive towards
it would be to create awareness among the people. And it can be achieved vie
education. A changed curriculum and subjects such as history, culture and
sociology must be taught what a new and boarder perspective. Courtesy wisdom
Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
To the Upanishads India owes
almost all the brighter sides of her life and culture. To them she owes her
impressive record of active toleration within her boarders and the uniformly
peaceful and benevolent nature of her foreign relations in the field of religion.
To them she owes the singular absence of aggressive political and military policies
and programmes on her part towards other nations during her millennia of
history . to them she owes the periodical renewal of her national springs of
life when they seem all but choked and about to dry up. To them also she owes
the absence of the heavy hand of an all –powerful church and the tentacles of
an inescapable dogma on the national lie and mind, allowing for the emergence
and unhampered functioning in succeeding
periods of free, creative, and universal spirits who came to purify and
reactivate the dormant spirit of the people and given divine honours, unlike the
hostility and persecution with which spiritual innovators were, and still are
received in all Semitic religious in the absence of the blessing of the
impersonal background which the Upanishads had provided for the Indian religions
, and whose procession down the ages is and impressive features of India’s long
history. Courtesy The charm and power of the
But, if He exists?
I drive joy There was a doctor in
Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God.
Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued
that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled
into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that
I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting
your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why
should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.
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