Growth of hotels industry in nagaland with special reference to dimapur district: a study

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Nipul Sutradhar and Subit Dutta

Hospitality industry consists of mostly the accommodation and food establishments for a large ingredient of the service mix in the tourism industry. This industry has generated tremendous employment opportunities and a main source of foreign exchange in India. Today, Hospitality industry has emerged as new driving force for the growth of services sector in India. This has not only been realized at National Level but also in State Level too. This paper attempted to study the growth of hotel industries of Nagaland in general and Dimapur in particular. Nagaland is one of the moderate growing states of NER. The Hotels in Nagaland primarily constitute of the Hotels of Kohima and Dimapur. Tourists coming to Dimapur are increasing day by day due to various reasons but the hotels to accommodate them hardly meet their requirement. This research is undertaken to study the growth of hotel industry in Dimapur in terms of units, room and bed capacity. The data has been collected and analysed from the tourist statistics available with the Department of Tourism, Government of Nagaland for the period from 2006 to 2015.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2018.12488.2196
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