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Sharing Responsibility-Role of Local and State Bodies

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UNIT 9 ROLE OF LOCAL BODIES
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9.0 Objectives
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Destination Planning
9.3 Marketing Role
9.4 Case Study of Dilli Haat
9.5 Let Us Sum U p
9.6 Answers to Check Your Progress Exercises
9.0 OBJECTIVES
In the Foundation Course on Tourism (TS-1 Unit 31, Block 8) you have been made aware of the role of local bodies in destination planning and development. After reading this Unit, you
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would be able to: appreciatc the significance of local bodies in the development process, understand the role of local bodies in tourism marketing, appreciate the importance of local bodies in maintaining and promoting the destinations, and know about the services that the local bodies should provide in …show more content…

In fact, the local bodies like municipalities, panchayats etc. have always been ignored in tourism planning and development. i I
The local bodies reflect the aspirations of the community and are directly accountable to local needs. Hence, it is for the local bodies to ensure that the :
I motivation for tourism development remains people centred, and
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benefits of tourism empower local communities rather than displacing or disinheriting them. In any destination planning the local bodies have a crucial rule. Ignoring them has led to, and if it continues, will again lead to a variety of problems related to guest-host relationships, destination life cycle, destination maintenance and so on. Infrastructural support like electricity, water , roads, street lighting, public parks, sewage, sanitation etc. is provided by the local body. This has a direct relationship with destination development and promotion.
But this fact is often not taken note of by the tourism industry as well as the central or state governments. For example, in the Master Plan, for tourism development in Maharashtra, which has been prepared by the State Government, the entire range of factors which determine tourism development, have been addressed, like the administrative machinery, transfer of land, transportation, tax exemptions, ecology, etc. An entire 84 km. stretch of the coastline from ,
Vijaydurg to

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