Morphological effects of Adventure tourist arrivals in India

Tourism is the act of travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes and refers to the provision of services in support of this act. Tourists are people who travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year – for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited. Definitions of adventure tourism have traditionally centered on adventure recreation.

Adventure Tourism is a fast developing niche sector of the tourism industry which is arguably poorly defined and lacking solid empirical focus. Adventure travelers often seek unique or new travel destinations and activities. It is often believed that a percentage of this sector is willing to accept limited tourism infrastructure with the promise of an exceptional, authentic experience. This Article  reports that explored one aspect of the outdoor adventure tourism sector: extreme sports, The term extreme sports has become a descriptor for a multitude of non-traditional, independent and organized alternative sports. The information in this Article may provide guidance for destination management organizations and firms involved in marketing as well as product development. It may be especially useful to destination management organizations or state/ regional tourism offices seeking to build or enhance their adventure offerings or adventure tourism operators seeking to understand their target market.

Activities requiring high level training, personal skills and commitment such as Base jumping, rope free climbing and  waterfall kayaking are assumed to be in the same category as those requiring no participant skills or dedication and little prior knowledge of the activity such as commercial rafting, low-level trekking, bungee jumping and single pitch climbing. Extreme sports are traditionally associated with risk-takers or ‘adrenalin junkies’.

Hard adventure includes trekking, climbing (mountain, rock and ice) and caving. These activities are high risk and require a high level of specialized skill. Unsurprisingly, these represented small percentages of the population but still uncovered a sizable market. The number of soft adventure departures represents a substantial percentage of trips worldwide. An adventure may be further defined as the “deliberate seeking of risk and uncertainty of outcome only in outdoor adventure pursuits is there a deliberate inclusion of activities that may contain threat to an individual’s health or life. Adventure tourism is a growing subset of the tourism market which seeks activities and programs where there may be a perception that the outcomes are uncertain.

Adventure tourism may be defined as “commercially operated activities involving a combination of adventure and excitement pursued in an outdoor environment incorporate a broad spectrum of activities ranging from high-risk adventure activities  to low risk ones. While this uncertainty may be appealing to the consumer of adventure tourism, the reality today of high public liability insurance premiums and consumers’ awareness of their contractual rights, is that many adventure tourism products have very certain outcomes as the programs and processes are heavily managed to ensure the quality of the product and the safety of the participant. To do otherwise may be to risk the very future of the organization.

This Article  has provided information on how the marketing management is possible and integrated to become a major destination in the nature and adventure tourist market in India and what it needs to do to attract more tourists to the tourism world of India.

Shanidev – The son of Lord Surya

” Om nilanjana samabhasam | Ravi putram yamagrajam ||

Cahaya martanda samhubhutam | Tama namami Shanescharam||”

Meaning

I bow to Lord Shani, who is black in colour and son of Sun and born to Chaya and brother of Yama , who moves very slowly.

Shani is is a son of Lord Surya. He is generally depicted in dark complexion, clothed in black. Shri Shani Mahatmya describes the story of Shani’s life. Shani Maharaj is a great devotee of Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu. In Sanskrit Shani is called Sanischara, which means, “slow mover”. Shani spends 2.5 years (Dhaiya) in each rashi. When we add the 2.5 years in previous and 2.5 years in next rashi together, the time period of 7.5 years is called Saadesaati, and the person faces challenging time during the period.

Famed Indian Classical Dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai Dies at 97

Besides dance and choreography, she was known for her novels, plays and poetry.

Source: Famed Indian Classical Dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai Dies at 97

World’s Oldest Man Dies in Japan Aged 112

He said his secret to a long life was not to smoke, drink or overdo it

Source: World’s Oldest Man Dies in Japan Aged 112

Hare krishna hare krishna, krishna krishna hare hare……

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Nature and Adventure Tourist Market in India.

Tourism is the act of travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes and refers to the provision of services in support of this act. Tourists are people who travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year – for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited. Definitions of adventure tourism have traditionally centered on adventure recreation.

Adventure tourism is a fast developing niche sector of the tourism industry which is arguably poorly defined and lacking solid empirical focus. Adventure travelers often seek unique or new travel destinations and activities. It is often believed that a percentage of this sector is willing to accept limited tourism infrastructure with the promise of an exceptional, authentic experience. This Article  reports that explored one aspect of the outdoor adventure tourism sector: extreme sports, The term extreme sports has become a descriptor for a multitude of non-traditional, independent and organized alternative sports. The information in this Article may provide guidance for destination management organizations and firms involved in marketing as well as product development. It may be especially useful to destination management organizations or state/ regional tourism offices seeking to build or enhance their adventure offerings or adventure tourism operators seeking to understand their target market. Activities requiring high level training, personal skills and commitment such as Base jumping, rope free climbing and  waterfall kayaking are assumed to be in the same category as those requiring no participant skills or dedication and little prior knowledge of the activity such as commercial rafting, low-level trekking, bungee jumping and single pitch climbing. Extreme sports are traditionally associated with risk-takers or ‘adrenalin junkies’. Hard adventure includes trekking, climbing (mountain, rock and ice) and caving8. These activities are high risk and require a high level of specialized skill. Unsurprisingly, these represented small percentages of the population but still uncovered a sizable market. The number of soft adventure departures represents a substantial percentage of trips worldwide. An adventure may be further defined as the “deliberate seeking of risk and uncertainty of outcome only in outdoor adventure pursuits is there a deliberate inclusion of activities that may contain threat to an individual’s health or life. Adventure tourism is a growing subset of the tourism market which seeks activities and programs where there may be a perception that the outcomes are uncertain. Adventure tourism may be defined as “commercially operated activities involving a combination of adventure and excitement pursued in an outdoor environment incorporate a broad spectrum of activities ranging from high-risk adventure activities  to low risk ones. While this uncertainty may be appealing to the consumer of adventure tourism, the reality today of high public liability insurance premiums and consumers’ awareness of their contractual rights, is that many adventure tourism products have very certain outcomes as the programs and processes are heavily managed to ensure the quality of the product and the safety of the participant. To do otherwise may be to risk the very future of the organization. This Article  has provided information on how the marketing management is possible and integrated to become a major destination in the nature and adventure tourist market in India and what it needs to do to attract more tourists to the tourism world of India.

The story of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization

                                              The Indus Civilization

Humans are cultural beings. Culture is the sum total of the ways of living built up by a group and passed on from one generation to another. Culture includes behavior such as courtship or child-rearing practices; material things such as tools, clothing, and shelter; and ideas, institutions, and beliefs.  First a few words about the historical context of the Indus script. The subcontinent’s earliest literate, urban civilization arose in the valley of the Indus River sometime after 2600 B.C.E. and by about 2300 B.C.E. was trading with Mesopotamia. Known as the Harappan or Indus civilization, it lasted only a few centuries. The region’s second identifiable civilization dates to about 1500 B.C.E. and is known as the Vedic Aryan civilization—after the nomadic Indo-European immigrant people, or Aryans, who founded it, and their holy texts, or Vedas. This civilization endured for nearly 1,000 years without cities or writing, but its religious and social traditions commingled with older traditions in the subcontinent to form the Indian civilization as it has developed over the past 2,500 years.

The Indus or Mature Harappan Civilization was the most extensive urban culture of its time, about 2600–1900 BCE. Its area comprised one million square kilometers, and more than one thousand of its settlements have been identified so far. The story of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization developed gradually. It does not enter the archaeological record until 1924 when Sir John Marshall began excavations at Harappa. Awareness of Harappan remains however, goes back to the nineteenth century. Most notable are Charles Masson and Sir Alexander Cunningham. Best described as a deserter and wanderer, Charles Masson stumbled upon the remains of Harappa in the late 1820s. He had no idea of the significance of what he found but proceeded to record his site observations. Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro are the two major examples given when referring to the IVC. These two settlements are located in the north and south respectively. To the northeast in the Punjab and by a former route of the Ravi tributary lies Harappa. Situated on the Indus River flood plain to the west and the Ghaggar-Hakra River, Mohenjo-Daro lies in the Sind province in what is today Pakistan.

The Indus culture covered a huge area, yet it was remarkably homogeneous. City layouts, building construction, weights and measures, seal inscriptions, patterned pottery and figurines, and even the burnt brick used for buildings and flood walls are unusually uniform in all Indus towns, suggesting an integrated economic system and good internal communications. Indus culture was also remarkably constant over time. Because the main cities and towns lay in river lowlands subject to flooding, they were rebuilt often, with each reconstruction closely following the previous pattern. Similarly, the Indus script, known from more than 2,000 stamp seals and apparently using both pictographic and phonetic symbols, shows no evidence of change over time. This evidence of stability, regularity, and traditionalism has led scholars to speculate that a centralized government, perhaps a conservative (priestly) theocracy, controlled this far-flung society. Both Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro apparently had populations of more than 35,000 and were meticulously designed on a similar plan. To the west of each town stood a large, walled citadel on a raised rectangular platform.

The town proper was laid out on a grid of main avenues, some as wide as 30 feet. The “blocks” formed by the main avenues were crisscrossed by small, less rigidly planned lanes, off which opened private houses, sometimes of more than one story. The typical house was built around a central courtyard and presented only blank walls to the lanes or streets outside, an arrangement still common  in many Near Eastern and South Asian cities. Perhaps the most striking feature of these cities was a complex system of covered drains and sewers. Private houses were serviced by wells, bathrooms, and latrines, and the great bath at Mohenjo-Daro was filled from its own large well. The drainage system that served these facilities was an engineering feat unrivaled until the time of the Romans, nearly 2,000 years later. The economy of the Indus state or states was based on agriculture. Wheat and barley were the main crops. The Indus valley people wove cloth from cotton, made metal tools, and used the potter’s wheel. Evidence points to trade between the Indus culture and Mesopotamia. Metals and semiprecious stones were apparently imported into the Indus region from present-day Iran and Afghanistan, as well as from Central Asia, from farther south on the Indian peninsula, and perhaps from Arabia. Similarities in artistic styles suggest that trade contacts resulted in cultural borrowings.