Adyasha Das

Adyasha Das

Ady­asha Das

Ady­asha Das is an Asso­ci­ate Pro­fess­or at the Indi­an Insti­tute of Tour­ism & Travel Man­age­ment, Bhubaneswar. A mul­tiple award-win­ning research­er, writer, and travel blog­ger from Odisha, Dr Das has received the Shri­ram Travel Grant and is the Akshar Writer in Res­id­ence hos­ted by Sahitya Aka­demi, India and the Goethe Found­a­tion, Germany.

Ady­asha’s major pub­lic­a­tions focus on the top­ics of her­it­age and cul­tur­al tour­ism, human resource man­age­ment and tour­ism, and the psy­cho­logy of tour­ist beha­viour. She has presen­ted papers at sev­er­al uni­ver­sit­ies and pro­fes­sion­al train­ing insitu­tions through­out Asia, Europe, and North America.

Unhiding Hirapur: A case study in cultural heritage tourism development

May 17, 2022

Tourism scholars and professionals with the yogini at Hirapur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

How does an insti­tu­tion of the Min­istry of Tour­ism, Gov­ern­ment of India trans­form under­ap­pre­ci­ated cul­tur­al her­it­age into a tour­ism attrac­tion? Ady­asha Das offers this “Good Tour­ism” Insight.  [Thanks to “GT” Part­ner the World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture and Her­it­age (WTACH) for invit­ing Dr Das to write this “GT” Insight. You too can write a “GT” Insight.] Through my research, […]

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