Religious tourism in india

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Abstracts
Tourism one of biggest industry in today world. In past man travel here to there for food . But slowly development in technology man find everything around . But still man travel . Nowsdays man travel for Entertainment , leisure , shopping , religious and so on . In my mind mostly travel for religious purpose .we call this type journey Pilgrimages. This journey also liked by ancient people

Introduction

People of Eourpe started pilgrimages between 1095to1291 . They traveled all around eourpe . The popular sites in eourpe for Pilgrimages Santigo de compostela in Spain. The famous church of Paris the seat of roman catholic church in Rome and the other holy land like Athens in Greek ( J.d. fridgen) In Arab they started pilgrimages in 700 BC . They travel to Macca for religious Practice . In other side people from ancient India were started pilgrimages to search the god they traveled in Jungle , one mountain to mountain another India is known as sub continent and is also has rich Heritages. India is 14th best country for its rich Heritages. In India religious tourism has big figure. India has many ancient temple and Fastival. The religion in India also attracts people from non-Indian origin. India is heavy spiritual area in World . (gaurav kumar and shantanu dubey). India attracts less than 0.4 percent of world tourists arrival and earns 0.7 percent (singh and singh, 1996)

There are some prominent religions in India

Hindusim Islam Buddhism Christianity Judaism Sikhism

Some prominent religious spots in india

Golden temple Amarnath Vaishno devi Tirupati balaji Haridwar Nalanda (gaurav and shantanu)

Golden temple
It is one of the most visited gurdwara in the world.people visit this more Than Taj mahal by(sikh religious tourism centre in India) This Gurdwara located at Amritsar Punjab Amritsar is one of the oldest , principle and holy city in Punjab . It is older mare than 400 year it is located at north part of India it is just 30 K.M away from Pakistan Border. Golden temple mainly belongs to Sikh Religion . It is created

by 4th Guru of Sikh guru Ramdas ji

History

History of golden is very simple . The 3rd guru of Sikh want make to make Sikh centre to warship so he Ordered to 4th guru to search the place . Then guru Ramdas started travel then he found pool Nacter which is now known as Amrit sarovar Because this pool of Nacter as unique power so guru ramdas chose this place for gurdwara . Then he started to make sikh Pilgrimage . A lots of Sikh came as voluntary Service . During Construction of golden temple guru ji called number of people from different tribes To settle down near the pool of nacter like this new village came up and Estabilished Market to provide Essantial. Service to the settlers after completion of temples Guru arjun dev ji 5th guru of sikh campiles Guru Granth Sahib(holy book of Sikh) in temple After Completion of temple many kings came and destroy the temple . It is destroyed 2 time firstly it was destroyed by Jahan khan in 1757and than Indian army in operation of blue star in 1984 .In 1830 maharaja ranjit singh offered white marble in Lay , gold leaves for plating it is around 98 K.G . The main attraction of golden temple is its unique features like white marbles and art on marbles an overlaid with gold leafs and stand in the centre of pool and one thing more the peace of place mostly things attracts the Peoples . According (Gurudwara management Committee ) more than 7.22 million Pilgrimage visit golden temple every year. Now Gurdwara management committee accepts online

bookings to stay at temple. from

Some Buddhist touches place

India is also known as land of lord Buddha . so attracts tourists mainly from whole Asia like , Japan, south Korea Thailand and from china. And many people from north state of India like bihar and Andhra pradesh .they all visit banyan tree at bodhgaya under which where lord Buddha attained enlightenment . They also visit sarnath where budha gave his first semon and kashinagar where he attained salvation There are some more place where buddist people visit most nalanda, where budha taught and vaishali where he did his last sarmon and this place also considered as key hubs of the Buddhist pilgrim circuit. There no any official prove , who many foreign tourist visit this Buddhist place . but due industry sources that 2 million people visited that place every year .buddhist pilgrims have been visiting india every year considering 84 percent of japan population is Buddhist , 95 per of Thailand is Buddhist , 47 percent of korea is Buddhism being the dominating religion so that is clear that lots of people from republic country like to visit india from www.sribd.com

Most visited city in India for pilgrimage

Haridwar is one of the The famous city for pilgrimage and moreover Haridwar is Oldest ,principle, city in india this city is located in northern state of india ,uttranchal pardesh . The population of this city 2,30,000 Haridwar Located at 300 meters above from see levelthe temperature of city almost

hot The best time visit haridwar is between October and march . haridwar is one of famous tourist destination in India for pilgrimage and vacations . But it is more famous for its temple most Visisted temple in India Hari-ki pairi Mansa devi mandir Bharat mata mandir Chandi devi mandir Daksh mandir

Hari- ki- pairi it is one of the famous an most

visited temple in haridwar it is also considered as this temple is famous for its kumbh festival .it is one of the famous festival in india ot is celebrate after 12year this temple belongs to lord shiva

Mansa devi mandir mansa devi mandir is most

famous temple this temple dedicated to mansa this temple located at bilula parvat . youcan reach at the the top of hills by buses or by cable car also . People usally visit this temple toaspir the goddesses to fulfill their wish. When their wishes fulfill they come back again and tie threads to the branches. They also offered same coconuts and garlands Chandi devi mandir This temple of chandi devi has own significance the temple located at neel parvat this temple is constracted in 1929 by king of jammu kashmir suchat singh .The history behind this temple as per the legend two kings nishmbha and shumbha captured land from lord Indra . At that time goddess parvati emerged as chandi devi to finish the demon Kings . After this goddess took rest that place . Since from that time this place considered as

sacred India is 7th biggest country in world moreover, it is also known as sub Continent . India is rich culture heritage so which attracts the people from different Countries .According to Andrews 1993 only one out of two people travelling to south Asia . India is key destination in south Asia . India attracting 52 % of total Tourist . But it growing very Fast . We have same old figure of arrivals in India Between 1995 to 1997

Conclusion

World tourist arrivals in India by main market 1995-1997

Country 1995 1996 1997 U.K 334,827 360686 370567 U.S.A 203343 22829 244239 Germany 89040 99853 104953 Switzerland 29388 34989 31717 In that figure we can say that tourism in india are increasing day by day . According to incredibleindia.org 5,37 million foreigners visited India in 2008 and around 567 million Domestic tourist travel around country . A study by the national council for Applied Economic research (NACAER) state that 230 million trips undertaken by India in which largest portion taken by religious tourisms .In which rural are 169 million and urban are 61 million. This research also shows that 50 percent tours package Origanised for religious

Purpose . Future of religious tourism in India are so Bright .

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