• AGNEL RITISH KUMAR TIRKEY

The ideal scenario of Sustainable Tourism lies in the synergy between maximum tourist satisfaction with optimism positive implications of this smokeless industry on the socio-cultural, economic and ecological environment of the concerned destination. Practically sustainable tourism development should essentially involve healthy growth of tourism with judicious use of available tourist resources in long terms. If the quality of tourist resources is sustainably maintain, tourism development is bound to be sustainable, since the sustenance of tourism essentially depends on sustained health of the basic tourism products, i.e., tourist resources or the tourist attraction. Naturally, the sustained good health of tourist resources is the key to sustained tourism development. Food is essential to sustain life, while ethnic foods are key components of the destination mix in the process of enriching the tourist experience. Like every cultural manifestation, the local culinary has a decisive bearing on the sustained sustenance of the various socio-cultural legacies. It is with this perspective that the present contribution aims at exploring, identifying and critically explaining the traditional recipes of the Bundelkhand Region while outlining their existing status vis a vis significance with respect to sustainable development of tourism in the study area.

Sustainable Tourism, Traditional recipes, Socio - Cultural, Bundelkhand

"SIGNIFICANCE OF CULTURAL MANIFESTATION IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – A CASE OF TRADITIONAL RECIPES OF BUNDELKHAND REGION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.61-86, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCH06008.pdf

"SIGNIFICANCE OF CULTURAL MANIFESTATION IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – A CASE OF TRADITIONAL RECIPES OF BUNDELKHAND REGION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp61-86, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCH06008.pdf