Tourism Resources of India

By Prof. H. Rajashekar | Professor of Commerce & Tourism University of Mysore

Learners enrolled: 202

India represents one of the oldest civilizations of the world and offers rich cultural heritage and variety. India is more remarkable for her extreme diversity of physical features. Its population represents a veritable museum of races representing almost all ethnic groups of the world with their characteristic features. Nature and history both have made India one of the most attractive tourist countries of the world. It offers everything in a rich variety of mountains and hills, valleys, highest peaks, sea beaches, landscape, scenic beauty, monuments and memorials, traditional art and dances, fairs and festivals and many other things have made the country a mosaic of living traditions. Tourism needs variety and India with its vast dimensions and diversity offers to every class of visitors something not found elsewhere.

Summary

Course Status :	Upcoming
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Multidisciplinary
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	05 Jan 2026
End Date :	30 Apr 2026
Enrollment Ends :	28 Feb 2026
Exam Date :	20 Jun 2026 IST
Translation Languages :	English
NCrF Level	4.5
SHIFT :	II

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week – 1 | 1. Indian Tourism- General Introduction | 2.Understanding Tourism Products Part I | 3.Understanding Tourism Products Part II |

Week – 2 | 4. Managing Tourism Products Part I | 5.Managing Tourism Products Part II | 6.Tourism Products of India part I |

Week – 3 | 7. Tourism Products of India part II | 8.Tourism Products of India Part III | 9.Tourism Products of India Part IV |

Week – 8 | 27. Nature based destinations of North India | 28. Hill stations and wildlife tourism in South India | 29. Hill stations , Beaches & wildlife tourism in West and Central India |

Books and references

Reading material	Author & Year	Type of publication (article/notes)	Content Abstract	Number of pages
Tourism Product	RajamanickamThandavan, Girish Revathy. (2006)	Text Book	Tourism resources of India	150
Tourism Products of India: A National Perspective	Robinet Jacob, P.Mahadevan, Sindhu Joseph (2012)	Text Book	A fresh perspective on the various tourism resources of India.	327
Tourism: operations and Management	SunetraRoday (2009)	Text Book	Various types of tourism, tourism infrastructure and sustainable tourism	480
Indian Tourism: Tourist Places of India	Anurag Mathur (2016)	Text Book	Indian Culture, History, Heritage, Arts, Architecture. complete information about Major Tourist Places of India. Museums in India	478
Tourism in India: Planning and Development	Iqbal and Ashraf (2006)	Text Book	Tourism planning and policies of India and in the states of India	222
Domestic Tourism in India	D. S. Bhardwaj (1998)	Text book	macro to micro studies on specific destinations	310
Ecology, Environment And Tourism	L.K. Singh (2008 )	Text book	relationship between environment and tourism , carrying capacity	330

Instructor bio

Prof. H. Rajashekar

Professor of Commerce & Tourism University of Mysore

Prof. H. Rajashekar, Course coordinator, is working as a Professor in Commerce and Tourism dept in University of Mysore, having 27 years teaching, research and industry experience. He has popularly known as Indian academic icon in the field of e-education and technology. He has published 104 Research papers, 8 Books at national and International level and 27 Ph D awardees. He is the recipient of 2 National Awards as BHARAT GOURAV AWARD for outstanding services, Achievements, and Contributions by India International Friendship Society, New Delhi and BHARAT EXCELLENCE AWARD for outstanding and extra-ordinary achievements in chosen fields of activity and services rendered to promote greater friendship and India-International Co-operation by Friendship Forum, New Delhi. He is a subject expert for the subject Tourism e-content development under NME-ICT project of CEC-UGC, and MOOC’s through the Educational Multimedia Research Centre, University of Mysore, Mysuru.

Course certificate

1. End-Term Examination:

o Weightage: 70% of the final result

o Minimum Passing Criteria: 40%

2. Internal Assessment:

o Weightage: 30% of the final result

o Minimum Passing Criteria: 40%

3. Calculation of IA Marks:

o Out of all graded weekly assessments/assignments, the top 50% (equal-weighted) shall be considered for calculation of the final Internal Assessment marks.

All students who obtain 40% marks in the internal assessment and 40% marks in the end-term proctored exam separately will be eligible for the SWAYAM Credit Certificate.

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