Tourism Prospects and Its Challenges: A Case Study of Sivasagar Districts in Assam, India

Abstract

Tourism industry is one of the fastest growing industry and one of the largest contributors to the world’s GDP. With tremendous growth scenarios of tourism industry, it has offers a huge prospect for generation of employment and overall development of the Sivasagar district because of its heritage sites, rich biodiversity, ethnic diversity, and tea garden area. Based on the present analysis the tourism potentialities of the Sivasagar can be categorized into – Historical tourism, cultural tourism, wildlife tourism, Tea Tourism. The present study has been carried out to understand and highlight the prospects and problems of tourism development in the Sivasagar District which was a third capital during Ahom reign.