Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management

Authors:-Dr.Prakash.C, Boban T Augustine, Chippy Francis, Arun Raju

Abstract:-Today tourism has emerged as one of the most important commercial practices for development. Tourism Act as a tool for employment generation, poverty alleviation and substantial human development. It is an important segment of countries economic development especially in terms of its contribution towards foreign exchange earnings, generation of additional income and creation of employment opportunity. The ever-growing pilgrimage tourism sector is likely to determine the future of our economy. The governments are now ready to invest crores of rupees for developing this sector. In a land like Kerala, rich in cultural and traditional values, embedded with scene and beautiful landscape and different places, with large quantities of untapped cultural and natural resources, pilgrimage tourism has a vast scope for expansion. The researcher concluded that pilgrimage tourism has an important role in the socio-economic development and it helps to improve the standard of living of people in the Ramapuram Grama Panchayath.