Tourism and Attitude of Host Community in Peripheral Region- A Case Study of Ladakh Priyanka Singh and A. K. Singh * Department of History of Art and Tourism Management, Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Abstract Host community is an integral part of tourism system at the destination and thereby constitutes an important segment of overall tourist experience. Hence, it is important to understand the attitude of host community towards tourism and their willingness to establish and develop tourism industry. The research was conducted in Ladakh, which is located on the north-eastern periphery of Jammu & Kashmir state of India. Recently there has been a significant growth in tourism in Ladakh. This paper is intended to explore how residents of Ladakh consider tourism as affecting their community, and in that way providing a framework for research to investigate attitude of residents toward tourism in Ladakh and the factors which are influencin...
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