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Growing Importance of
BY: GOUR KANJILAL Now a days, everyone has positive thinking about the importance of Religious Tourism which allows us to safeguard our heritage and contribute to the social and economic development of the area and to the maintenance of the cultural heritage of the people. In India, every region have World Heritage monuments and religious centers of which some of them attract tourists from overseas also like Golden Temple, Amritsar, Tirupati Balaji in Tirumala, Char Dham in Garhwal Hills Varanasi –Rameshwaram –Badrinath- Puri of Char Dham of Shankaracharya, Ajmer Garib Nawaz Sharif and many more. These destinations can also organized through cultural looks with a great tourist attraction specially Hindu Circuits, Sikh
Circuits, Jain Circuits, Sufi Circuits, Islamic Heritage Circuits, Christian pilgrimage Circuits, Buddhist Circuits, Vedic routes, Shiva Circuits (Jyotirlinga visits) Ganpati circuits etc… This wide range of activities with religious content, are based at sometime on the different festive events which generate hundreds of thousands of trip every year like Kumbh Mela, Dussehra, Holi, Gurpurab, Pushkar fair, Budh Purnima so on. All these festivals are sufficiently attractive by themselves and give the visitors the chance of seeing colorful events and religious ceremonies as also enjoying beautiful landscapes at the same time. The existing resources that belong to our history and culture are without a doubt, innumerable and we must exploit them out by looking necessary
measures in order to raise awareness of their existence and to protect them. Already J&K Tourism is doing a big pilgrimage tourism boost at Vaishno Devi with over (4 million devotes per year). Tirupati Balaji visit in Andhra Pradesh (over 7 crore visitors) Sai Shirdi at Nashik over 2 million tourists, Uttarakhand visit to four Himalayan Shrines in Garhwal Hills (over 1.50 million) and states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, Tamilnadu have a large volume of domestic and international tourists to pilgrimage centers, Bihar has good volume of Buddhist traffic. We need aggressive publicity to get increased volumes. Thus in Indian Tourism, a special focus is there on Cultural Tourism with link to Pilgrimage/Religious tourism for touristic purpose and boost festivals