VISION TOURISM 2020 - Aurangabad District

• It’s a multi agency, multi tasking, multifaceted industry, best understood at micro level like
that of Guide Service, Taxi Drivers, Hotels, Handicraft, Vendors etc.
• Tourism has been not viewed from the side of Individual product such as Ellora for instance,
but overall Maharashtra Tourism.
• Individual branding is virtually not existing
• The City has not been declared the Tourism capital of the state.
• There is no legislation on Tourism which can be used.
• Tourist tours such as the tour for e.g. the Kingfisher Factory, Bajaj Factory for curiosity or to
the Institute of Hotel Management, as the leading Hotel school of the world are not marketed
neither designed.
• Industrial and Business Tourism remains unexplored and more emphasis is laid on cultural
Tourism.
• Round the year Tourism is not existing at the moment.
• Trained manpower availability is at its lowest.
• Tourism needs a clean neighborhood and this is a challenge.
• Tourism is not marketed as a District brand on an international level but amalgamated into
Maharashtra Tourism.
• Ellora Festival or other Handicraft Festivals have a great uncertainty and do not reach the
international Tourist
• There is no existence of a “Tourism Council” in the District.
• The intellectual properties and geographical indications in the district have not been
portrayed.
• Air connectivity, Railway connectivity is very poor with no southward connectivity to
Hyderabad and upward connectivity to Indore and Jaipur.
• Multiple ticketing at places of entry such as Ajanta is a matter of contention.
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