Prospects and Challenges of Tourism Industry in Meghalaya- Socio-Geographical Approach

Sukanta Sarkar, Thijien Tharjiath Keat and Belete Debasu Gebrie

Journal of Global Economy, 2024, vol. 20, issue 1, 33-43

Abstract: The paper discussed prospects and challenges of tourism industry in Meghalaya. It has found that tourism industry is growing in Meghalaya. It benefits on employment creation, income generation, revenue, foreign exchange, infrastructure building etc. Meghalaya is known for natural beauty, lush greenery, and hills. There are opportunities of ecotourism, adventure tourism, cultural tourism, and agri-tourism. It is rich in flora and fauna, heritage and traditions, culture, wildlife etc. Travellers can involve in rock climbing, water sports, caving, trekking, and hiking. Meghalaya has numerous travel attractions for tourists. Seven Sisters Falls, Mawphlang Sacred Forest, Elephant Falls, Mawsynram, Cherrapunji, Dawki River, Laitlum Canyon, Living Root Bridges, Umiam Lake and Nohakalikai Falls are the popular tourist destinations. Abysmal infrastructure, lack of alternatives means of transport, boundary issues, poor connectivity, ethnic conflicts, are the major challenges. Therefore, Government should implement proper policies for the mitigating the constrains and development of tourism in the state

Keywords: Ecotourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.rcssindia.org/jge (application/pdf)
http://www.rcssindia.org (text/html)
Not freely downloadable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jge:journl:2014

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Global Economy is currently edited by Dr J K SACHDEVA

More articles in Journal of Global Economy from Research Centre for Social Sciences,Mumbai, India
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Dr J K Sachdeva ().