• Dr. M.P.Senthilkumar

Tourism is the fastest growing and the second largest industry of the world and has tremendous potentials for earning foreign exchange, yielding tax revenues, providing employment, promoting the growth of auxiliary industries and development of industrially backward regions. In Indian economy, tourism performs a magnificent role as major income generator. In this sub-continent, the state of Tamilnadu has the potentials to attract the tourist who love to admire the nature, history, culture, heritage, customs, art and architecture of the past civilizations. Pudukkottai though a dry and barren land is blessed with rocky hills and hence a treasure trove of rock monuments. This paper is an attempt to investigate the barriers of tourism development in historical monuments of Pudukkottai. The study analyzed the issues and challenges of tourists during their visits in these destinations. The study was depended on both primary and secondary data. The primary data were the opinions collected from the tourists of historical monuments of Pudukkottai. The researcher hopes that this study may offer some solutions to the developmental barriers of tourism development of this region.

Tourism, barriers, Pudukkottai, historical monuments

"BARRIERS OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS OF PUDUKKOTTAI: A SURVEY ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.74-77, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRU006018.pdf

"BARRIERS OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS OF PUDUKKOTTAI: A SURVEY ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp74-77, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRU006018.pdf