A STUDY ON LOCAL FESTIVALS IN CONNECTION WITH TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN MAHARASHTRA

After pandemic tourism sector has experienced a great fall and tremendous loss of the
sector has predicted. Till to date situation is not much promising and the sector will have
to take much efforts to re-boost. Tourism word was introduced by many cultures in
different ways. Past people generally used to move around for certain specific reason
and one major reason was Local Festival. Local festivals being the base of tourism from
ancient period. Generally married women used to move to their parent’s place with these
festival reason. And from that time Local festivals got an important place in movement of
man and material and ultimately became a new form of Tourism. Local Festivals were
also the major reasons in Indian culture which have supported tourism from many years.
Tourism was not leisure or a holiday trip, at that time people used to move around with
certain reasons. One of those reason was “Local festivals.”. For that particular festival
which seems to be happened ones a year generally, the whole family started moving from
one place to another. It was a great change for them, it was a small trip or a family tour.
Transport facilities were limited but still families loved to move for a change. There are
many local festivals arranged and celebrated by people in the whole world. Some of them
are very famous, and Tourism industry had taken all the advantage of those festivals like
“Tomato Festival” in Italy, Shopping Festival in Dubai etc.. From the viewpoint of a
foreign traveller, a word tantamount with India is ‘culture’. Many tours are arranged by
taking this Festival as a base. If we go on searching, we could find many exciting and
totally unknown festivals are there even in Maharashtra state. Looking out the data for
the famous festivals and the tourism development in those areas, we could find that there
is a vast scope for the development of Maharashtra tourism on the basis of these Local

festivals. This research will find out the relationship of local festivals in tourism
development as well as in employment generation at local level. After pandemic these
festivals can also prove to be the easiest solution for bringing back tourism sector on the
track for.