Solution-Class 9-Geography-Chapter-12-Tourism-Maharashtra Board

International / Foreign tourism

International / Foreign tourism

Domestic/Health tourism

Religious tourism

Agro tourism

Religious tourism

(1) Tadoba — Chandrapur — Tiger.

(2) Bird Sanctuary — Nannaj — Great Indian Bustard (Maaldhok).

(3) Sanjay Gandhi National Park — Mumbai — Kanheri caves.

(4) Taj Mahal — Agra — World famous wonder.

(5) Ramoji Fim City — Hyderabad — Film city.

(6) Radhanagari — Kolhapur - Bison.

(7) Bimbetka — Madhya Pradesh — Ancient cave-paintings.

(8) Ancient caves - Ellora - Kailash caves.

(9) Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary — Arunachal Pradesh — Butterflies.

(10) Loktak — Manipur — Lake.

The objectives of tourism are as follows :

• Getting joy
• Getting entertained
• Trading
• Staying
• Availing of health facilities
• Getting a glimpse of agricultural life
• Performing religious activities, etc.

• Tourists can cause damage to tourist destinations and ruin the environment. Some visitors litter and contaminate the tourism area.
• As a result, all tourists must adhere to the principle of ecotourism.
• Ecotourism entails taking care to avoid degrading and contaminating the environment as well as destroying tourist destinations.
• Eco-friendly tourism entails avoiding noise and air pollution at tourist destinations, as well as not harming trees, animals, birds, and other wildlife in the forests.
• Ecotourism also entails building eco-friendly houses, resorts, and traffic patterns, among other things.
• Recycling and reusing are also important concepts in ecotourism. Thus, tourism (ecotourism) provides numerous environmental benefits.

Tourism boosts the development of various services. It improves infrastructure and generates employment opportunities.

The following employment opportunities are developed with development of tourism :

• Restaurants
• Shops
• Transportation
• Entertainment
• Resorts / lodges
• Medical services
• Trading
• Banking, etc.

The problems that may arise at the tourist places : (1) Shortage of lodges (2) Lack of frequency of means of transportation (3) Environmental issues (4) Lack of medical services (5) Lack of means of communication, etc.

Measures to minimize the problems arising at the tourist places :

• The government should provide enough accommodation facilities at popular tourist destinations at reasonable prices.
• All tourism destinations, including isolated tourist destinations, must have fast transportation.
• The government should assign officers to monitor cleanliness in tourist areas and give them the authority to take swift action against tourists who throw garbage in tourist areas.
• The government should establish medical dispensaries near tourist attractions.
• Every tourist destination should have a communication zone with complete communication services.

The places of interest that can be developed as tourist centres in my district are as follows :

(1) Alandi (2) Lonaval (3) Sinhagad (4) Kamshet (5) Urali Kanchan etc.

The reasons for the places of interest that can be developed as tourists centres :

• Alandi is popular as a place of pilgrimage and the resting place of the 8th century Marathi saint Sant Dnyaneshwar.
• Lonavala is famous hill station near pune.
• Sinhagad has historical importance.
• Kamshet is famous for adventure sports like paragliding and oldest caves. Kamshet has a great potential for agro tourism also.
• Urali Kanchan village has been famous for the last sixty years for the Naturopathy Center (Nisarg Upchar Ashram) started by Mahatma Gandhi and his disciple Manibhai Desai.
• Thus, Alandi Sinhagad Urali Kanchan are the most suitable places for field visits and educational tourism.

(Note : Students, here it is assumed that you stay in Pune district. The answer to this question is to be written according to the district in which you live.)

• Tourists frequently require a variety of services when visiting tourist destinations.
• Tourism creates jobs in restaurants, shopping, transportation, entertainment, the health business, trading, and banking, among other places. Tourism provides jobs for locals in this way.

• Take care of not hurting the animals and birds.
• Do not go near sea coasts, hilltops, jungles, unknown caves, etc. without a local guide.
• Avoid to take ‘selfies’ at hill edges
• Do not take with wild animals.
• Avoid the temptation to swim in the sea or go into the deep waters.
• Keep the tourist places clean.

• Tourism creates jobs in restaurants, shopping, transportation, entertainment, the health business, trading, and banking, among other places.
• Tourism promotes infrastructural development.
• Tourism also contributes to an increase in foreign currency inflows.
• Tourism contributes to the economic development of a specific region or country. As a result, the concept of "Atithi Devo Bhava" (Guest is our God) is quite applicable.

A list of places having hot springs :

(1) Vajreshwari (2) Unhere (3) Unapdev (4) Sav (5) Unakeshwar (6) Kapeshwar.

The reasons for these places to be located at their places :

At these places, due to excess of geothermal energy, hot springs are located below the surface of the ground.

The correlation between transportation routes and development of tourism is found at the following places :

(1) Mumbai (2) Pune (3) Nagpur (4) Nashik (5) Kolhapur (6) Nanded (7) Shegaon

(8) Aurangabad (9) Ratnagiri (10) Solapur.