Determination of Standard of Living for People Involved with Tourism in Digha by Ordinal Regression Analysis
Tourism in India has evolved considerably during the last decade, and Bengal as a state has performed considerably well for the growth of tourism. Tourism in Bengal has not only contributed to the growth of the economy in the state of Bengal but has devel
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Determination of Standard of Living for People Involved with Tourism in Digha by Ordinal Regression Analysis Subhankar Parbat, Payel Chatterjee, Sourav Sen, and Adwitiraj Banerjee
Abstract Tourism in India has evolved considerably during the last decade, and Bengal as a state has performed considerably well for the growth of tourism. Tourism in Bengal has not only contributed to the growth of the economy in the state of Bengal but has developed the state’s remote area which has now turned into a key tourist spot. One such area is the region of Digha in the Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal, and it has turned out to be the most popular sea resort in West Bengal. The Digha Sankarpur Development Authority has taken key measures to develop tourism in Digha. The basic objective of this paper will be to determine the standard of living among the people of Digha who are associated with tourism after the various schemes to promote tourism by the state government. We have used ordinal regression analysis as most of our data were qualitative in nature and interpretation was done accordingly for the results obtained. Through our findings, we have tried to bring out the various problems associated with tourism in Digha along with the suggestions to improve it. Keywords Tourism · Development · Project · Income · Schemes JEL Code Z32 · Q57 · Q26 · L83
S. Parbat Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, St. Xavier’s College Kolkata, Kolkata, India e-mail: [email protected] P. Chatterjee Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, The University of Burdwan, Bardhaman, India e-mail: [email protected] S. Sen (B) Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Midnapore Treasury, Midnapore, India e-mail: [email protected] A. Banerjee Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India e-mail: [email protected] © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 D. Balsalobre-Lorente et al. (eds.), Strategies in Sustainable Tourism, Economic Growth and Clean Energy, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59675-0_13
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13.1 Introduction The growing influence of tourism on the economy and its share in improving the quality of people’s lives by creating diverse large-scale employment both directly or indirectly are irrefutable. It promotes diverse cultural heritage with unity in diversity, strengthens peace of living in harmony and nurtures values of nature and environment. To assess and implement the profile of international and domestic tourism, periodical surveys and researches are conducted. In the year 2018, 17.42 million1 international tourists visited India. During the period 2019, Rs. 2,10,981 crores (Provisional estimates) and US$29.962 billion1 (Provisional estimates) with a growth of 8.31 and 4.8%1 of foreign exchange earnings were recorded. According to the Tourism Satellite Account for India (TSAI), the estimates of the contribution of tourism to GDP during the year 2016–17 are 5.06%1 (direct 2.63% and indirect 2.43%). The estimate of share in e
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