期刊名称：SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
印刷版ISSN：2319-4766
电子版ISSN：2278-8808
出版年度：2019
卷号：J-F,V-6/49
页码：11709-11717
出版社：SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL'S
摘要：Tourism is considered as a catalyst in employment generation and social integration and aims to spruce up economic growth of a place. Many local communities recognize tourism for its stimulating capacity to change in social, cultural, environmental and economic dimensions. Coastal area, consist a major proportion of population and economic activities, which depend mostly on its natural resources. Such conditions reflect the importance of these areas in terms of the welfare of the coastal communities. This paper intends to conduct an analysis of economic conditions of the coastal community in Mandarmoni, a tourism site along the coastal stretch of East Medinipur district, West Bengal. The analysis intends to pinpoint the major findings on impact of tourism on employment, labour supply, occupational structure, and level of income and also analyze the comparability of such factors among previous and present generation of the local community, to get the changing scenario over the time. The survey conducted, involved detailed field work, shows a significant impact of tourism on the economic profile of the local communities at Mandarmoni.
关键词：Coastal tourism; local community; economic condition
