01621nas a2200337   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653002200044653000800066653001000074653001500084653003400099653001100133653001100144653001600155653001300171653001500184653002600199653002100225653002100246653002100267100001900288700001900307245013500326856014700461300001400608490000700622520063400629022002001263       2020                            d10aBuddhist heritage10aGIS10aIndia10aIntangible10aKhangchendzonga National Park10aSacred10aSikkim10aSustainable10aTangible10ageotourism10aheritage conservation10aheritage tourism10aLandscape change10anatural resource1 aP. Chakrabarty1 aS.K. Sadhukhan00aBuddhist monastic trek circuit amidst of a geotourism landscape: A study in the vicinity of Khangchendzonga National Park in India  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85092762504&doi=10.30892%2fGTG.31327-550&partnerID=40&md5=d44f721171154b61ed69644b5f023bfc  a1135-11450 v313 aTourism 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.  a20650817 (ISSN)