TY - JOUR
KW - Buddhist heritage
KW - GIS
KW - India
KW - Intangible
KW - Khangchendzonga National Park
KW - Sacred
KW - Sikkim
KW - Sustainable
KW - Tangible
KW - geotourism
KW - heritage conservation
KW - heritage tourism
KW - Landscape change
KW - natural resource
AU - P. Chakrabarty
AU - S.K. Sadhukhan
AB - Tourism has been introduced in Khangchendzonga National Park and its surroundings based on its outstanding natural and cultural resources. It is a sacred Buddhist landscape endowed with geotourism potentials. This paper aims to evaluate the scope of symbiosis between Buddhist tourism and geotourism applying GIS and SWOT with emphasis on evaluation of the values of existing tangible and intangible heritages. Results address the research gap on sustainable utilization of a geotourism landscape which is more familiar as a landscape of Buddhist heritage in tourism industry for incredible metaphors that glorified it as sacred.
BT - Geojournal of Tourism and Geosites
DO - 10.30892/GTG.31327-550
LA - English
M1 - 3
N1 - Publisher: Editura Universitatii din Oradea
N2 - Tourism has been introduced in Khangchendzonga National Park and its surroundings based on its outstanding natural and cultural resources. It is a sacred Buddhist landscape endowed with geotourism potentials. This paper aims to evaluate the scope of symbiosis between Buddhist tourism and geotourism applying GIS and SWOT with emphasis on evaluation of the values of existing tangible and intangible heritages. Results address the research gap on sustainable utilization of a geotourism landscape which is more familiar as a landscape of Buddhist heritage in tourism industry for incredible metaphors that glorified it as sacred.
PY - 2020
SP - 1135
EP - 1145
T2 - Geojournal of Tourism and Geosites
TI - Buddhist monastic trek circuit amidst of a geotourism landscape: A study in the vicinity of Khangchendzonga National Park in India
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85092762504&doi=10.30892%2fGTG.31327-550&partnerID=40&md5=d44f721171154b61ed69644b5f023bfc
VL - 31
SN - 20650817 (ISSN)
ER -