Raj rhapsodies: tourism, heritage and the seduction of history

摘要

Home to several of the sites in India's 'golden triangle' of tourism (for example, Jodhpur, Jaipur and Udaipur), Rajasthan has become a key tourism destination over the past two decades. It now attracts some one-third of the country's approximately 4 million international visitors annually (p. xxvii). As the authors point out, this is very small compared to the number of domestic visitors, which nationally is 160 million. We are not told the proportion attracted to Rajasthan, although the numbers to the 'top ten' domestic destinations in the state add up to nearly 5 1/2 million (p. xxxii). Clearly, domestic visitors are preponderant.