Global Growth Synergies of Tourism & West Bengal Perspective

Abstract

Tourism has substantial involvement in maintainable development, economic advancement and social assistances. It is an economic activity which will boost up when a person leaves his residence for a span of time for cherishing the nature, seep the hidden treasure and to grab the energy and oxygen. If we analyse the statistics published from the last decade it has been seen that tourism has become a major shove area in India to address the aforesaid issues, to utilize the limited resources and also to optimize the level of financial involvement for developing tourist substructure in a restraint economic sphere. This article verbalizes a simple practise to enumerate tourism potential for the state. This paper attempts to explore direct effects on the social, cultural, educational and economic sectors of national societies and on their international relations such as tourism can help to enhance economic activities and exploits local cultural and natural specialties in a positive way. India can take initiative to proper utilization of skilled and semi-skilled workers to provide employment opportunities to the destinations of tourism according to the suggestions given by the Planning Commission. This paper used secondary data for analysing the growth of West Bengal. According to the estimate given by the World Travel and Tourism Council, this sector now generate more than 4% of the country's GDP and more than 20 crore jobs. As a whole, Tourism is expected to generate 23 billion of economic activity now and by 2034 it is expected to grow to $ 45.08 billion. Among the different regions of the country, North India attracts the highest number of tourists. As a whole, 49% of foreign tourists throng to this part of the country while Western India attracts 29% of them. With 18 % of foreign tourist, South India remains in the third spot while Eastern region has a very negligible share of only 4 % of foreign tourists.