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Manjula Chaudhary

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Ecotourism in India is approached through generic guidelines that lack definite standards and judging their compliance is difficult. The solution lies in preferably quantified benchmarks for different components of nature in ecotourism areas. The discussion on the common benchmarks brings out their role in promoting eco-tourism in true spirit.

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Eco-tourism, Environmental Benchmarking, Eco-certification, Standardization,
Environment Management Systems

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Manjula Chaudhary ¹

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1 Department of Tourism and Hotel Management Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra., IN

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Manjula Chaudhary ¹, Megha Gupta ¹

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1 Dept of Tourism and Hotel Management, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.

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Status of women in a society gets reflected in the roles played by them in its institutions such as family, political or other social groups. Corporate also echo the same. In Indian industry woman hold more positions of power now than in the past. Indian hospitality industry also shows the same pattern. But compared to their share in population women hold few positions compared to males. This is in spite of a number of measures taken by the government through legislation and policy measures. The vertically typical "Gender Pyramid "is prevalent in this too-lower level occupation with few career development opportunities dominated by women and key managerial positions dominated by men. Earlier studies found the deeply entrenched beliefs and stereotyped attitudes towards women in the workplace to be the main barrier in gender equality. Though India seems poised for superpower status because of its booming economy. However, beneath the spectacular "India Shining" story lurks an area of darkness-the unequal status of its women, who constitute more than half its demographic. This study on Gender Equality in Indian Hotel Industry- A study of Perception of male and female employees aims to examine whether female employees of hotel industry perceive gender equality issues differently than male employees. It collects information from 13 hotels and 110 respondents in NCR on 5-point likert scale on 27 items. For analysis Independent samples T test is used, and results of study demonstrate that there is difference in the perception of male and female only for one issue "women do not get same fringe benefits as men", For rest of the issues of gender equality T value is not significant meaning that both men and women have similar opinion regarding gender equality issues. This study found biases in management practices in deference to official policy on gender equality. The preferences were clearly in favour of males for senior positions and younger female at lower levels.

Keywords

Equality of Status, Female Employees, Gender, Hospitality Industry, Women

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Manjula Chaudhary ¹, Naser Ul Islam ²

Affiliations
1 Professor, Department of Tourism and Hotel Management, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, IN
2 Research Scholar, Department of Tourism and Hotel Management, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, IN

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Religious tourism is modern day format of pilgrimage. Pilgrimage is an old practice of travelling to the sacred places such as temples, mosques, churches and shrines etc. Religious tourism mixes pilgrimage and features of tourism and is considered a tool for sustainability, change and peace building among communities. It is particularly important for India being the fastest growing segment of tourism and given the fact that the whole country is dotted with important religious sites and is known for largest congregation in the world as in the case of Mahakumbh. While each state of country has a unique mix of religious tourism but the state of Jammu and Kashmir have a wonderful mix of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh religions sites though it is known more for Vaishno Devi shrine and Amarnath yatra. Kashmir Valley in this state is popularly known for its natural beauty and leisure tourism than religious tourism despite the high resources for religious tourism. This study is an attempt to identify and map the religious tourist resources in Kashmir valley. The nature of the study is exploratory and to find answers to queries raised through objectives both primary and secondary data has been used. The mapping of the sites highlighted that Kashmir has a mixture of different religious attractions and some of these attractions are located in close vicinity to one another. Based on geographical proximity, these attractions have been divided in to six tourism clusters. The analysis of these clusters based on parameters of tourism potential revealed that four clusters are under developed. The promotion of these clusters will provide diversity to tourism basket of Kashmir valley. Moreover, the less development of these sites could be taken as opportunity to take cues from developed sites and these can be promoted in a sustainable manner based on community participation.

Keywords

Kashmir Tourism, Religious Tourism, Mapping Tourism, Tourism Clusters.

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Manjula Chaudhary ¹, Deepa Shrivastava ²

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1 Professor, Department of Tourism & Hotel Management, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, IN
2 Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IN

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Good corporate governance is fundamental to the success and sustainability of firms. Corporate governance in India is based on a mix of voluntary and mandatory compliance to ensure professionalism. This study assesses the role of corporate governance norms related to Board Structure and Management Practices on the performance of public listed Tourism & Hospitality firms in India. The study uses panel Data Regression analysis for 60 firms over seven financial years from 2009-10 to 2015-16. The results show that the Board Structure and Management Practices during the study period had negative impacts on firm performance indicators of Return on Equity and Return on Assets. This suggests the need for more reforms in corporate governance.

Keywords

Board Characteristics, Corporate Governance, Firm Performance, Tourism and Hospitality, Management Practices.

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