• Dr. Subhashish Mishra

Tourism being a dynamically evolving industry always gets affected by several internal as well as external factors. These changes not only affect the host community but also the tourists arriving at the destination. Hence the present paper tries to analyse the residents’ perception about the tourism impact on the religious site of Jagannath Dhaam in Puri, Odisha. It is quantitative survey of the local community’s perception regarding various impacts of tourism like initial impression, overall impact, specific impacts (socio-cultural, natural, economic etc) and opinion about future tourism development. The results indicated that the residents’ have a positive impression about tourism (due to their involvement in tourism related activities) and hardly aware about its negative impacts. The major impacts are found to be the increase in the crime level, loss of peace & tranquillity of the region, no change in the socialization level with tourists, moderate employment opportunities and minimal growth of tourism infrastructure. Later based on the findings suggestive measures have been provided which will not only help the local administration in decision making and devising appropriate public policies & feasible strategies but also meeting the expectations of local residents and deepening their relationship with the tourism industry.

Tourism Impact, Host Community, Seraikella-Kharsawan, Negative Impact etc.

"PERCEPTION OF TOURISM IMPACT: A CASE STUDY OF SERAIKELA KHARSAWAN, JHARKHAND", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.207-214, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904U82.pdf

"PERCEPTION OF TOURISM IMPACT: A CASE STUDY OF SERAIKELA KHARSAWAN, JHARKHAND", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp207-214, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904U82.pdf