Role of Performing and Fine Arts for Promoting Cultural Tourism A Study of Select Districts in West Bengal

Abstract

Travel and Tourism industry has grown rapidly as well as changing at a fast pace. West Bengal is such a destination where consists with rich culture, heritage, flora and fauna, combination of both sea, mountains and wildlife. Tourism has various dimensions in various aspects like economic, social, demographic, technological, geographical, cultural, natural, and so many fields. Rural Tourism is a subset of tourism which helps to boost up local economy like farming, forestry or other traditional activities like women empowerment. There is an opportunity which supplies various goods, needed for tourism product may be in the position to open avenues of employment. Cultural parts generally following kinds of products are available, viz. historical, heritage, natural-based, medication- based, religious-based, cultural-based and manmade. It has been observed that till now tourism has remained neglected in India for variety of factors like lack of infrastructure, civic amenities, lack of publicity, and peoples ignorance in accessibility to tourist location. As a result, tourists from home country and overseas countries prefer to visit urban tourist sites. Cultural tourism includes both those who intend to stay away from home for one night or more and those out for the day in the countryside for instance, visiting attractions, walking, cycling or enjoying a whole different range of countryside activities. (Cultural Tourism is one of the leading genres in the travel and tourism industry. This in fact this has become quite popular after the Second World War when the art of enquiry and cultural affinity reached a zenith. India has always been a unique blend of cultural choices inviting to people over centuries with everlasting warmth. The State of West Bengal has a mass appeal when it comes to the aspect of tourism, in West Bengal it has always been a fruitful endeavor of cultural assimilation.) newlineBengal Culture donates to the various creation of identity which is also influence to ethnic tourism too. Bengal folk art and cultural