LAP Lambert Academic Publishing SOCIAL COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS: A STUDY OF TOURISM INDUSTRY IN RAJASTHAN

Tourism has gained importance on account of its economic impacts on the host destination. It provides for support to local economy and provides for ample of employment opportunities as well as helps the region to develop and grow. Tourism nowadays has emerged as a major industry that has economic impacts that are favorable to the host. Efforts are being made to make the industry sounder so as to increase the economic benefits from the same.The concept of the book is to discover the social or societal effects of tourism industry. It is aimed to find out the social benefit as well as social cost bearded by the host destination, society.This book concluded that tourism impacts the society in various ways, it has social benefits as well there are social costs being bared up by the society. Tourism has risen as one of the major service industry providing for employment their by improving economy of the state. Tourism has both impacts negative as well as positive of which the latter supersede the ill effects.The primary objective of this research is to review the cost incurred and social, economic, cultural and overall benefits as enjoyed by the society on account of tourism.