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| Article Name : | | | EVALUATION OF TOURISM BUSINESS IN ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS WITH REFERENCES TO TRADERS AND CUSTOMERS | | Author Name : | | | DEV SINGH AND F.R.ALEXANDER PRAVEEN DURAI | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ISRJ-38 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | The tourism is the largest service industry in India. Government figures show
tourism contributes 6.23 percent of GDP and accounts for 8.78 percent of jobs. Further more,
it benefits in three ways to the India by making employment, foreign currency and
infrastructure development. In this regard the present study represents the scenic beauty of
Andaman & Nicobar Islands which would create a sense of dissatisfaction and the human
mind would rebel against "the whole mass of the motley facts of life". The Andaman & Nicobar
are a group of picturesque Islands, big and small, inhabited and uninhabited, a total of 572
islands, islets and rocks lying in the South Eastern Part of the Bay of Bengal. The significance
plays as role of Tourism is essential in the economic development of a country. Tourism is the
second largest foreign exchange earner in India. The tourism industry employs a large
number of people, both skilled and unskilled. The study is an attempt with the objective and the
hypothesis is structures in order to know the opinion about of traders and customers, analyze
the difference between educational qualification of the respondents and their satisfaction
about transport system and to find out the association between years of establishment of the
respondents and their customer in nature. The aim of the present study was to find the
relationship between traders of tourism in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the customers
of the traders. The research design adopted includes descriptive research design. The
universe consists of all the traders of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. From that the
researcher collected the data directly from 50 tourism traders through self structured
questionnaire. The purposive sampling techniques have been adopted. The study reveals that
there is no significant difference between educational qualification of the respondents and
their satisfaction about transport system and further it argues strongly that there is no
significant association between years of establishment of the respondents and their customer
in nature. The recommendation made as India should make the most of its topography, natural
resources and labor to develop not only traditional products but also non traditional products
of tourism. The study ends by concluded that the Indian tourism industry will continue to grow
at the fastest pace in the coming years. | | Keywords : | | - tourism
- islands
- economic development
- traders and customers
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