Promoting Agro-Tourism for Growth: View in light of Odisha
India is one of the very promising budding economies but has two shades of
high income areas growing at a faster pace while low income areas growing at a slower
pace. India is also one of the very emerging tourist destinations for the
world, specifically religious tourism; Agro tourism,sea beach, Ayurveda; yoga
and so on.
India and Odisha has come to be the land of Gods all over the world now.
This is an opportunity for us as a country to develop tourism in regions that
show poor growth when compared with the national average. And Odisha is one
such state surrounded by many rivers , mountains , lakes and temples. It is
rightly termed as a melting pot of cultures mixed with a zing of tradition but
is somehow backward in terms of economic performance. The reasons for this may
be many but Odisha has a very chance to prosper itself into a preferred tourist
destinations.
The Jagannath Desh is other name of Odisha and by targeting this Agro
tourism side by side may be flourished and earned a lucrative income.
The total tourist inflows have come to affect the GDP of Odisha, may it be
foreign or domestic tourist inflow. This brings to a conclusion that a
relatively backward region can be pushed into the virtuous circle of
development by developing tourism mainly in agriculture based there and this
would have a positive impact upon GDP.
It should be framed by some planned policy initiatives that may help in
furthering the same should be initiated by the Governments with more emphasis of
the regions where tourism is developed. These policy initiatives may be in the
form of developing infrastructure for the tourism industry on a fast track
basis, enacting special laws for the safety of the tourists, creating world
class airports, roadways, five and seven star hotels, special ferries for
nearby places and other innovative ideas like creating a rural environment,
agri tourist spots, facilities and continuing to carry on with these
apprehending the increase in the number of tourists each year. It is no doubt
that it has tremendous potentiality to expand tourism sector through Agricultural
based prosperity and beauty.