TY - JOUR AU - et al., Miss Ananya Borgohain PY - 2020/02/17 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS OF TOURISM INDUSTRY IN ASSAM JF - International Journal of Control and Automation JA - IJCA VL - 13 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - http://sersc.org/journals/index.php/IJCA/article/view/5215 SP - 259 - 261 AB - Tourism is now-a-days considered as an important industry which has vast scope for the generation ofincome and employment. It is one of the world's fastest growing industries, a major source of foreignexchange earner of a nation and a measure for resolving interstate and inter community conflict.Although the whole north eastern region has tremendous tourism potential, the tourism industry in thearea is still miles to go to exploit the proper potentialities. This is mainly due to curse of nature and lackof proper attention of the central government. The state as well as the entire north east region of Indiahas been subjected to century long neglect. Even after 64 years of the country's independence, same kindof central apathy is being continued to the region. The state of Assam is best known for her uniquenatural beauty with flora and fauna, historical monuments, pilgrim centre, tea gardens and its colorfulcultural festivals. All these can make Assam as one of the best destination of the tourists. The tourism inAssam is mainly based on Wildlife, Tea tourism, Historical Monuments Ethnic cultural heritages etc.Therefore, natural parks and sanctuaries, rivers, lakes, warm water springs, forests, wild life, are theprincipal components of tourist attraction in the state. The whole tourism potentialities of the state can begrouped together under the categories - Wildlife, Nature Tourism, Tea tourism, Eco Tourism, CulturalTourism, and Adventure Tourism etc. The present paper has been an attempt to highlight the mainprospects and problems of tourism in Assam. The development of tourism in the state during theglobalization period has also been analysed on the basis of some secondary data. ER -