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EVALUATION OF TOURISM BUSINESS IN ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS WITH REFERENCES TO TRADERS AND CUSTOMERS
Author Name :
DEV SINGH AND F.R.ALEXANDER PRAVEEN DURAI
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Ashok Yakkaldevi
Article Series No. :
ISRJ-41
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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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