Handicraft Tourism of Madhya Pradesh: A Revival of MP’s Lost Art
The tourism industry is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors in India and is expected to contribute about Four trillion rupees to the Indian economy by 2024 (Chauhan, 2016). Due to this reason the tourism industry is developing new alternative forms of tourism around the world. As well as today’s generation needs and wants are changing. They want to experience, exploring and enjoying their tour. Nowadays traveller desires to learn new-new things and doing some unusual kind of activities so that they can experience some out of the box kind of new stuff. The main reason behind merging up the Handicraft industry into the tourism industry by coming up with the name “Handicraft Tourism” is that the Tourism industry has multidimensional, social, cultural, economic and political characteristics. It is not only a growth engine but also an employment generator. As per the UN’s world tourism organization, tourism provides around 6-7% of the world’s total jobs directly and millions mo...