1. Insurgency effect on Tourism
North-east India
By: Rojit Asem
IITTM-Gwalior
2nd Sem. TT’B’
2. • Tourism industry can act as a revenue generator and as a catalyst
for development in a North-eastern region of India.
• Seven States comprise India’s Northeast: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh,
Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. These States
cover a combined area of over 255,088 sq. km. (7.7 per cent of the
country’s territory).
• Characterized by extraordinary ethnic, cultural, religious and
linguistic diversity, with more than 166 Scheduled Tribes
• Northeast India has been an area of great and continuous
civilisation intercourse through history, and has been thought of
as “a gateway of commerce and culture that linked India
overland to east and Southeast ”, and “a complex transition
zone of linguistic, racial and religious streams”.
3. NORTH-EAST: UNKNOWN INDIA
• Tribal ethos-166 separate tribes
• Rich natural resources- Oil, Gas, Minerals,
Medicinal plants
• High literacy rate
• Mythological tides
• Rich natural beauty
• Annual floods
• Strategic Position Gateway to South-East Asia
4. NORTH EAST … A REAL LIFE
EXPERIENCE UNITY IN DIVERSITY …
INDIA’S SPECIALITY
5. TOURISM & DEVELOPMENT
• Tourism provides direct benefits to the local community and
businesses.
• The Vision 2020 document released by Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh in 2008 for the North-eastern region earmarks
infrastructure-led tourism development as one of the primary
hopefuls for revenue generation.
• working with Ministry Of Civil Aviation for setting up a pilot
training institute and upgrading airports. It has proposed to
support a mountaineering and adventure sports institute.
• The NEC also proposes to support setting up heritage museums.
6. • Northeast India is considered to be one of the most favoured
tourist spots in India by Globetrotters and Discovery Network's
Travel & Living channel.
• People are attracted to the region by the richness of its culture
and the sheer variety of its festivities, dress, cuisines and
ethnicities.
7. NEGATIVE DRIVERS OR UNCERTAINITY
The drivers mentioned below could however pose
obstacles to this future:
• Transport and Communication
• Ethnic Violence
• Insurgent Extortion Networks
• Negative Political Culture
• Image of Frontier
• Militarisation of State Presence
• Pressure on Land
8. • Ethnic differences, political distrust between communities and
demand for either ethnic based separate states within India or
outright secession dominate public discourse in the Northeast.
• The state's inability to provide an alternative emancipating
ideology and unimaginative bureaucratic structures reinforce the
feeling of neglect and hostility towards imagined “others”.
• The writ of insurgent groups like the NSCN (IM), UNLF, DHD, UPDS
and ULFA runs through the establishment of parallel governments,
extortion networks and violence.
9. PROBLEMS TO RISE TOURISM IN NE
• Lack of infrastructure
• Communication bottlenecks
• Geographical isolation
• Ethnic clashes leading to political
instability
• Growth of insurgent activities
• Lack of fund
10. • Absence of leadership and entrepreneurship ability
• Indifferent attitude of the Government both at State and Central
level
• Defective socio-economic and political set up
• Lack of a proper tourism development policy of the Government
• Lack of people’s co-operation and consciousness
• Lack of proper friendly investment atmosphere
• Absence of congenial atmosphere to attract the tourists and such
many other factors.
11. ADDRESSING THE SECURITY
RESTRICTIONS
Tour operators in the Northeast are keen on a review of the
to promote tourism
• Restricted Area Permit (RAP)
• Protected Area Permit (PAP)
• Inner Line Permit (ILP)
12. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
• To discuss why the hotels and tourism destinations are becoming a
soft target for the extremists.
• To analyze the impacts of terrorist activities on hospitality and
tourism industry.
• To provide the various measures which can be useful in order to
prevent the possible attacks on hotels and tourist destinations.
13. WHY TERRORISTS TARGET TOURISTS?
• Tourists are easy to attack. Terrorism needs a great amount of
correctness, which in turn requires predictability.
• Tourists make better targets than the locals. Because terrorists
often exist in the country where the attacks take place and the
public is well aware of their existence.
14. • Most importantly, the targeting of tourists,
particularly international tourists, can
generate a great deal of attention, causing
tourists to avoid travel to that part of the
world.
16. MAJOR INSURGENT GROUP IN NE
Name Founded Area of
action
Allies Training Cadre
BDSF /
NDFB
1986 Indo-
Bhutan
border
ULFA,
KIA
Manas,
Nilphamari
(Bdesh)
600
ULFA 1979 Upper
Assam
KIA,ISI,
ALP
KIA, NSCN,
Bdesh
1200
PLA 1978 Imphal
Valley
PREPAK,
KIA
Burma 200
NLFT 1989 Tripura IM Bdesh 700
NSCN(IM) 1988 Nagaland,
Manipur,
Barak
SDUFSEH
R
Nagaland,
Bdesh,
Burma
2000+
NSCN(K) 1988 Mon, Tirap KIA Burma 2000+
18. POSSITIVE EFFECT OF TERRORIST
ATTACK ON TOURISM
• A new trend of ‘Terror Tourism’ is introduced.
• Showing places where attacks were held.
19. Short Term Impact
This type of impact is found immediately after terror attack
• Tourist fear to visit the destination
• Tourists feel insecure at such destination and try to leave the
destination early.
• Tourist about to visit may either cancel or postpone their journey.
• Tour operators find it difficult to sell that particular destination.
• Once if tourist arrivals fall down stakeholders morale at
destination becomes low and this creates further problem
IMPACT OF TERRORISM ON TOURISM
20. Long Term Impact
This type of impact is felt even after a period of couple of years.
• Tourists generally avoid visiting such destination.
• As they feel insecure even repeated tourist may dislike coming.
• Tour operates may loose interest as such destination become less
profitable.
• Certain tourism entrepreneur closes their business as they face
loss continuously.
• Original charm exist no more making it difficult for policy makers
to rebuild the lost glory.
21. IMPORTANT MEASURES
• Proper verification of employees
• Verification of suppliers and their people
• Knowing the guests properly
• Keep eye on the entrance
• Train the staff for emergency
• Hire the professionals
• Plan ahead
22. CONCLUSION
The study has presented the importance of tourism in the
growth of a country and how terrorist attacks effect the
growth of tourism.
NO TERRORISM
YES TO TOURISM
