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    Religious tourism is a major part of tourism in India, accounting for 50% of all package tours. Many religious sites see enormous numbers of domestic pilgrims annually, such as Tirupati which receives over 23 million visitors per year. Some of India's most popular religious tourism destinations include the Char Dham circuit in Uttarakhand, Jagannath Temple in Puri, and the Kumbh Mela. However, developing religious tourism further faces challenges around infrastructure, waste management, pollution, and monetization of religion. Improving connectivity, integrated infrastructure, and marketing will help stimulate further growth of religious tourism in India.

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    Religious tourism is a major part of tourism in India, accounting for 50% of all package tours. Many religious sites see enormous numbers of domestic pilgrims annually, such as Tirupati which receives over 23 million visitors per year. Some of India's most popular religious tourism destinations include the Char Dham circuit in Uttarakhand, Jagannath Temple in Puri, and the Kumbh Mela. However, developing religious tourism further faces challenges around infrastructure, waste management, pollution, and monetization of religion. Improving connectivity, integrated infrastructure, and marketing will help stimulate further growth of religious tourism in India.

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    Religious tourism is a major part of tourism in India, accounting for 50% of all package tours. Many religious sites see enormous numbers of domestic pilgrims annually, such as Tirupati which receives over 23 million visitors per year. Some of India's most popular religious tourism destinations include the Char Dham circuit in Uttarakhand, Jagannath Temple in Puri, and the Kumbh Mela. However, developing religious tourism further faces challenges around infrastructure, waste management, pollution, and monetization of religion. Improving connectivity, integrated infrastructure, and marketing will help stimulate further growth of religious tourism in India.

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    Religious tourism is a major part of tourism in India, accounting for 50% of all package tours. Many religious sites see enormous numbers of domestic pilgrims annually, such as Tirupati which receives over 23 million visitors per year. Some of India's most popular religious tourism destinations include the Char Dham circuit in Uttarakhand, Jagannath Temple in Puri, and the Kumbh Mela. However, developing religious tourism further faces challenges around infrastructure, waste management, pollution, and monetization of religion. Improving connectivity, integrated infrastructure, and marketing will help stimulate further growth of religious tourism in India.

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    Impact of

    Religion on
    Development of
    Tourism In India
    Anubhav Shukla
    Abhigyan Anupam
    Avijit Jamloki
    Abshar Aghwani
    Gunjan Kabdwal
    Fareed Laiq
    WHAT IT IS?
    Religious tourism can be defined as travel with the
    core motive of experiencing religious forms, or the
    product they induce, like art, culture, tradition, and
    architecture.
    Perspective of Religious Tourism
    in India
    There are two distinct aspects to Religious Tourism in
    India; one, the faith of the domestic tourist, who has a
    spiritual attachment to the deity/destination in line
    with their religious beliefs; the other is the 'foreign’
    tourist, someone belonging to a different religion,
    region or country, for whom the destination and the
    religious practices have the dimension of 'novelty', a
    spiritual experience different from their own, despite
    the ethical values being delivered remaining the same.
    Cont..
    From the domestic market's perspective, there is a fine
    line dividing business and belief. Many temples,
    mosques, churches, gurudwaras and other major
    religious centres, in today's socio-economic structures,
    are tangible assets in terms of infrastructure and the
    workforce they employ, thereby implying that the
    institution has to monetize itself in order to be able to
    meet its everyday survival in societal environments.
    Religion in India
    1.9 0.8 0.4 0.6
    2.3

    13.4

    80.5

    Hindus Muslims Christians Sikhs Budhisht Jains Others


    Religious Tourism In India


    A study by the Delhi based National Council for Applied
    Economic Research (NCAER) shows that of the 230 million
    tourist trips undertaken in India, the largest proportion is
    made up of religious pilgrimages. Such journeys, which are
    undertaken by both rural and urban Indians, outnumber
    leisure holidays in hill stations, getaways to sea beaches and
    even trips to metropolitan cities. The research also shows that
    of all the package tours organised in India, religious trips
    accounted for 50 per cent, much higher than leisure tour
    packages at 28 per cent.
    Contd.
    For instance, as many as 23 million people visited Tirupati, a temple
    town near the southern tip of India to catch a glimpse of a deity
    known as Lord Balaji. Tirupati’s annual list of pilgrims is higher
    than the total number of travelers visiting Mumbai, Delhi,
    Bangalore and Kolkata put together. To manage such a large
    number of people, infrastructure has been beefed up by religious
    trusts, state governments, private chains and the central
    government.
    Religious Tourism India’s USP

     Vaishno Devi
     Uttrakhand Char Dham
     Jagannath Temple, Puri
     Kumbh Mela
     Tomb of Moinuddin Chisti
     Golden Temple
     Shirdi
     Mathura
     Dwarka
     Rameshwaram
     Haji Ali
     Jama Masjid
    Development of Religious
    Tourism in India
    Buddhist Circuit
    Other Tourist Circuits
    Issue Faced in Developing
    Religious Tourism
     Carrying Capacity
     Waste Management
     Air Pollution
     Monetizing Religion
     Lack of scrutiny of religious trusts
    Points for Development of
    Religious Tourism in India
     Developing Religious Tourism Circuits through a Hub and Spoke
    Model
     Providing the tourists with a holistic tourism experience
     Marketing religious tourism destinations needs special training
     Developing integrated infrastructure
     Enhanced emphasis of minimizing the impact on the environment
     Scrutiny of religious trusts
     Developing appropriate Institutional Framework to stimulate the
     growth of Religious Tourism
     Pricing of religious tourism products
     Improving connectivity to specific religious tourism circuits to
    promote them
    Jai Hind!

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