Dr Madhuri Sawant
Dr. Madhuri Sawant is the Director Department of Tourism Administration, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, India and Vice President of Euro Asia Tourism Studies Association and also Chief -Editor of Euro-Asia tourism Studies Journal published from France.
As an Expert Member of Tourism, she is working on the Government of India’s University Grants Commission and various prominent Academic Committees of Tourism in over 18 Universities in India.
A post graduate in Tourism Administration (MTA) she is the First UGC NET-JRF and also first Woman to be awarded PhD in Tourism in the state of Maharashtra, India.
She also holds PG Diplomas in Business Management, German Language and Environmental Studies.
As a prominent Tourism Researcher University of Queensland Australia has published her biography in “Women’s Voices in Tourism Research” to motivate the young global tourism researchers.
Her principle research interests are Marketing, CSR, Socio-Economic Aspects, Heritage Tourism Management and has completed 05 Major Research Projects sponsored by University Grants Commission (UGC), Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) and Ministry of Tourism Government of India and has also worked as the Research Coordinator of India on the International Project with academicians from Europe and Asia.
As a frequent traveller for academic and Research Assignments, she has visited various Universities in, Portugal, Japan, France, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Chile and South Korea.
She has over 61 publications including 06 books to her credit and has organized several International and National Seminars / Conferences / Workshops.
As a Research Supervisor, she is guiding Doctoral Research Fellows from United Kingdom, Japan, Thailand, and Yemen on Health Tourism, Creative Tourism, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Resources in Tourism, Internet Marketing, Destination Branding, Film Tourism, Crime & Tourism and she has evaluated several doctoral thesis & conducted Open Viva-Voce
Dr Madhuri has delivered Keynotes, Valedictory Address, chaired number of technical sessions in National and International Conferences.
She is a prominent Resource Person for the Training programs for Government Tourism Officers, Immigration Officers, Tourist Guides, Assistant Professors and Early Career Researchers.
Dr Sawant has designed over 31 courses / programs in Tourism and Hospitality Management.
Supervisors: PhD supervisor for Tourism
Phone: 09403124212
Address: Department of Tourism Administration, University campus, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad.(MS),431004.
As an Expert Member of Tourism, she is working on the Government of India’s University Grants Commission and various prominent Academic Committees of Tourism in over 18 Universities in India.
A post graduate in Tourism Administration (MTA) she is the First UGC NET-JRF and also first Woman to be awarded PhD in Tourism in the state of Maharashtra, India.
She also holds PG Diplomas in Business Management, German Language and Environmental Studies.
As a prominent Tourism Researcher University of Queensland Australia has published her biography in “Women’s Voices in Tourism Research” to motivate the young global tourism researchers.
Her principle research interests are Marketing, CSR, Socio-Economic Aspects, Heritage Tourism Management and has completed 05 Major Research Projects sponsored by University Grants Commission (UGC), Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) and Ministry of Tourism Government of India and has also worked as the Research Coordinator of India on the International Project with academicians from Europe and Asia.
As a frequent traveller for academic and Research Assignments, she has visited various Universities in, Portugal, Japan, France, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Chile and South Korea.
She has over 61 publications including 06 books to her credit and has organized several International and National Seminars / Conferences / Workshops.
As a Research Supervisor, she is guiding Doctoral Research Fellows from United Kingdom, Japan, Thailand, and Yemen on Health Tourism, Creative Tourism, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Resources in Tourism, Internet Marketing, Destination Branding, Film Tourism, Crime & Tourism and she has evaluated several doctoral thesis & conducted Open Viva-Voce
Dr Madhuri has delivered Keynotes, Valedictory Address, chaired number of technical sessions in National and International Conferences.
She is a prominent Resource Person for the Training programs for Government Tourism Officers, Immigration Officers, Tourist Guides, Assistant Professors and Early Career Researchers.
Dr Sawant has designed over 31 courses / programs in Tourism and Hospitality Management.
Supervisors: PhD supervisor for Tourism
Phone: 09403124212
Address: Department of Tourism Administration, University campus, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad.(MS),431004.
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1.To study the type of mechanism adopted and arrangements made for planning, co-ordination, monitoring and implementation of scheme.
2. To assess the Socio-economic impacts of the schemes.
3. T o study the awareness about the tourism schemes by the locals.
4. To make recommendations for improvement and implementations of the tourism schemes
2. To study the opportunities for self sustainability of selected villages.
3. To study the local community perception about attraction of the rural tourism in the selected villages
Visit to historic sites is one of the oldest and major motivations for tourists all over the world. Forts as a heritage tourism product play vital role in attracting lots of tourists with their historic significance, distinct architecture and unique locations. Forts have always fascinated tourists as they provide opportunity to explore historic civilization, architecture, defense mechanism along with due adventure and natural beauty in most of the cases. Further forts allow one to recall the major historic events and feel the pride attached to them. Maharashtra is blessed with over 350 forts and the only state which has four different categories of forts such as Hill forts, Land forts, Coastal forts and Island forts which can be developed as major tourist destinations which will provide an opportunity to preserve this glorious and valuable heritage for the coming generations as well as will bring socio-economic benefits to the region.
Despite of having huge and distinct inventory for developing Fort Tourism in the state of Maharashtra, it has to say that this legacy is in much neglected state by both the policy makers and other stakeholders. Most of the forts in Maharashtra are ruined and remaining are in poor state of conservation which failed to attract respective number of tourists and hence deprived coming generations from experiencing this valuable heritage and local communities from the socio – economic benefits attached with it. On the other hand Rajasthan has become one of the prominent destinations in the world attracting lakhs of domestic and foreign tourists every year with the help of effective management and marketing of its legacy of forts and palaces.
2. Research Methodology:
This research relied on both the sources of data i.e. Primary as well as Secondary. The primary data was collected with the help of two different sets of schedules for tourists visiting four sample forts of Rajasthan and eight sample forts of Maharashtra. Out of the eight forts selected from Maharashtra only four were considered for comparative study as categories of coastal and island forts are not available in Rajasthan. An Independent ‘t’ test to compare means to evaluate the difference between tourist satisfaction levels at forts of Maharashtra and Rajasthan. Also, interviews of concerned officials and experts were conducted. For secondary data different policies, books, study reports, journals etc. were referred.
Being one of the fastest growing industries, Tourism is playing vital role in economies of many countries in the world. National Tourism policy of India, of the year 2002, defines tourism as an engine of growth and aiming high to achieve maximum and sustainable tourism growth in the country. Various states of the country are also planning their resources to bring in tourism development to attain maximum social and economic benefits.
Aurangabad district, tourism capital of Maharashtra, annually attracts millions of tourists and tourism is one of the integral parts of the local economy. But there is need ofevaluating the development of tourism industry in Aurangabad, which can be carried out by studying socio-economic impacts of tourism development at the district. Another evident problem intourism development is that the concentration of tourism economy is in Aurangabad city rather than contributing to rural areas. The present study focuses on the same issues and brings forward some constructive guidelines and suggestions.
Research Methodology
The research aimed to compare the socio-economic features of households who are involved in the tourism industry with the households who are not involved in tourism industry and to introspect into the role of the local community and the stakeholders in the planning and development. Seven Major tourist destinations are selected from Aurangabad district to conduct the survey and residents living around these destinations are selected as respondents for survey by using cluster sampling. To compare the features of groups, independent t test is applied. Interviews of officials of public and private tourism related organizations have been conducted.
Following were the themes:
1. Tourism planning, development and policy
2. Tourism Marketing planning
3. Human resource planning
4. Tourism finance and economic planning
5. Contemporary tourism planning