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Reasons why you should visit Bihar

Arka Roy Chowdhury , TRAVEL TRENDS , BIHAR Updated : Jan 19, 2022, 16:11 IST

Unravel Bihar's Beauty

Bihar is an ancient state, its wonders are of a different kind. For the curious traveller, Bihar can be an eye-opener. This is the land of Gautama Buddha, this is where the ancient centre of learning, Nalanda, exists. All of BIhar is a glorious tale from a time long gone, this is an exploration you will never forget.

​Mahabodhi Temple

One of the holiest sites relating to the life of Lord Buddha, Mahabodhi Temple is certainly one of the most important places of interest in the state of Bihar. The first temple was built by Emperor Ashoka back in 3rd Century BC. This is one of the holiest sites for Buddhism, and attracts numerous visitors. Today, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

​Bodhi Tree

This is the spot where Buddha sat under a fig tree and attained enlightenment. Clearly, this is a major site for Buddhists and tourists from across the world. This Mahabodhi Tree site in Gaya is from where Buddhism took birth, and that is fascinating. This is not the original tree as the original tree was cursed by Tishyaraksha, the last wife of Emperor Ashoka. Successive trees were cut down, but each one a new one was planted.

​Valmiki National Park

This is a tiger reserve in Bihar’s West Champaran District, and is a terrific place of interest for travellers. This is home to the easternmost limit of the Himalayan Terai Forest, and is a wonderful destination to explore the wild. It is a picturesque destination with cliffs, gorges, streams, valleys, and more, coming together to form a celebration of wildlife in the region.

Another beautiful destination that you can visit in Bihar is Rajgir. The charming destination is known for its peacefulness and quietude. This too is a holy site, but nature also has left its mark on this destination, thus, the place is surrounded by hills, and lush greenery. This is located in the district of Nalanda, and is home to a Japanese Temple.

​Buxar Fort

An obscure fort, Buxar Fort is located in Buxar, and was built by King Rudra Deo in 1054. The fort itself is old and not in the best of conditions, but it is something of a historic beauty. You have some other places of interest nearby, such as the Gauri Shankar Temple and Nath Baba Temple.

Nalanda University

One of the best things to see in Bihar, Nalanda is home to many ancient glories of the state. At the start, there are the ruins of the original Nalanda University where scholars came from across the world. The university finds a mention in Hieun Tsang’s writings as well. The university complex is for all to see today.

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Buddhist pilgrimage in Bihar India: a tourism policy perspective

2020, International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

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Tourism policies formulated and implemented by the union and state governments of India and Bihar respectively, over the past five decades, have played a significant role in attracting religious tourists to the Buddhist sites in Bihar from all across the world. This exploratory research is a historiographical narrative of Buddhist tourism in view of tourism development policies and plans. The study finds that favorable and effective policies have increased domestic and foreign tourism in India, especially international Buddhist pilgrimage to Bihar. However, the state of Bihar still needs better policies and marketing to promote Buddhist tourism. The paper explores the overlooked role of government tourism development policies in promoting spiritual and religious tourism in India, in addition to chronicling the development of tourism in Bihar. The study paves the path for further research into a potential tourism resource that the state of Bihar possesses but has not been able to fully realize.

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India's Buddhist heritage spans millennia across the entire subcontinent and large parts of South and South East Asia. Laying host to Lord Buddha's journey, and the subsequent development of the social and moral precepts of Buddhist thought, the plethora of intangible as well as tangible Buddhist heritage has made the Buddhist Circuit one of the most popular tourist products that India has to offer. Tourism in India, particularly Buddhist tourism has the potential to deliver socioeconomic benefits in developing states, engender cross-cultural respect, inculcate pride and encourage conservation of natural and cultural resources. Through the prism of local culture, Buddhism has inculcated diverse practices and traditions. Sustainability in tourism can be achieved through fostering community participation in business which will not only promote inclusive growth, but will also strengthen the forward and backward linkages of the industry and ensure innovation and optimum resource utilization in design and implementation of strategic tourism projects.

Md. Anisur Rahman

UGC Approved Journal of Marketing Strategy(JMS)

The Buddhist tourism industry in India is continuously putting its effort to sustain the image of top Buddhist tourism destination in the world. The industries have to think about new strategies and policies to handle their customers and tourists to optimize their customer loyalty and revenues. A new impetus is given to Buddhist Tourism when Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said; I would prefer calling 'India' as 'Buddhist India' and simultaneously also declared Bodh Gaya as 'Spiritual Capital of India'. Since Bodh Gaya is the epicentre of Buddhist Tourism, it will help to increase number of tourist to Buddhist India. The Buddhist Circuit is a globally important route for over 450 million Buddhists across the world, especially in East and South East Asian regions, making it an important platform for strengthening bilateral and cultural ties. However, despite its cultural and religious significance, Tourism infrastructure along the Buddhist Circuit remains relatively underdeveloped and large volumes of tourists have failed to translate into higher incomes for the local communities. The cornerstone of our National and State policy framework should therefore be to nurture a business environment conducive for the private sector, encourage and invest in local enterprises and domestic industry as well as foreign investment to build quality infrastructure, hotels, and services at these sites. Buddhist tourism today is highlighted for its immense business opportunities. With its lucrative linkages with transport, hotel industry etc., the potential and performance of India's Buddhist tourism industry needs to be gauged in terms of its socioeconomic magnitudes. Creating a profile of a customer in a systematic manner, delivering consistent development process across all media and integrating multi-channel customer interactions will help in building positive image of Indian Buddhist tourism. This paper is an attempt to envisage the various factors crucial to business development strategy and to find out the issues pertaining to the travelers, tourists and customer's in the Buddhist tourism sector and the attempts being made by various Journal of Marketing Strategy (JMS) Email: [email protected], http://www.jmspublication.com (An open access scholarly, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary and fully refereed journals.) 72 stake holders. The paper also makes some policy suggestions to address the constraints in promoting Buddhist tourism in India. METHODOLOGY Primary data gathered by using structured questionnaires administered to numerous Indians and foreigners/expatriates, interviews of officials in the tourism department and through internet sources. Both open and close-ended questions are used. Secondary data collected through internet sources pertaining to the statistical data. Also the method of SWOT analysis of tourism services through the feedback from various stake holders has been used to decipher the inter-linkage of strategy to the environment factors.

Kiran Shinde

"This paper examines the current policy framework under which religious tourism operates in India. It is based on a study of Vrindavan, a pilgrimage site representative of a majority of Hindu religious tourism destinations in India, receiving more than six million pilgrims annually. Using a case study approach, the paper highlights how most religious tourism activity takes place outside the state’s framework of policies and institutions. The contemporary religious tourism industry has largely evolved from the tradition of pilgrimages and continues to thrive on the economy of religious devotion. Religious actors drive this industry by providing religious services, accommodation and transport options in pilgrimage sites yielding an explicit ‘religious’ and ‘informal’ orientation. Following the colonial legacy, quasi-religious entrepreneurs continue to enjoy exemptions from the state with regard to revenue generation and abstain from civic responsibilities. While the role of the state is undeniable, at present, this is fairly limited due to the lack of understanding of the informality of the industry, absence of adequate policy, and an ‘institutional vacuum’ in dealing with religious tourism. The fragmentation resulting from the free-market situation and the absence of regulation and lack of infrastructural support lead to a condition where a high influx of religious tourists threatens the cultural and environmental sustainability of religious tourism destinations."

Dr. Himanshu Choudhary

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the key reasons of lack of promotion of Buddhist tourist sites in India and compare the awareness of foreign and Indian tourists towards India as a destination for Buddhist sites vis-a` -vis other countries such as Japan, Thailand and China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses an exploratory research design. Data were collected using structured questionnaires administered to Indian and foreign tourists, interviews of officials in the tourism department and through internet sources. Findings – Findings show a low level of awareness among both Indian and foreign tourists about India as a destination for Buddhist sites as compared to countries such as Japan, Thailand and China. Further, the findings to show a low level of engagement in promoting India as a destination for Buddhist tourism on part of tourist officials. Practical implications – The paper develops insights into better promotion of Buddhist tourist sites in India. Originality/value – The paper serves as a stepping stone towards future research on overlooked religious sites and their promotion.

Knut Aukland

In this article I draw on a wide range of studies including my own field research to provide a bird’s-eye perspective of the various points of connection, confluence and overlap between Hindu pilgrimage and domestic tourism in contemporary India. This serves three aims. First, it presents an overview of the contemporary scene in India which lends itself to comparison. Second, it illustrates the ways in which a pilgrimage tradition can be explored via tourism, as opposed to something contrasted with tourism. Thus, I hope to demonstrate the many potential research avenues beyond asking who is a pilgrim and who is a tourist. Third, it seeks to locate lacunas for future research. I suggest four entry points into tourism that can each serve as departures for studying the contemporary nexus between a pilgrimage tradition and tourism: tourism as (1) a service industry, (2) a sector that motivates states and public bodies to act, (3) a travel culture and (4) a negotiated category, part of public discourses and imaginations. The article demonstrates the variety of ways in which Hindu pilgrimage becomes evermore entangled with domestic tourism, and the potential for new research angles this entanglement generates. Hinduism, Hindu pilgrimage, India, pilgrimage and tourism

Religious tourism constitutes the dominant form of tourism in India and yet little is known about how it is governed and managed. This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of governance and management of religious tourism. It first provides an overview of policy framework and governance mechanisms that are relevant for religious tourism. Then a market profile is presented to examine how the religious tourism economy intersects with the state-apparatus of policies and institutions. To better explain the complexities of religious tourism, the paper employs the axis of formal-informal economy: the informal end is where the religious tourism economy is based on the traditional practice of pilgrimage, that relies on the informal networks built around social patronage relationships between visitors and religious actors; while at the formal end, it is often the state-sponsored and/or public charitable trusts that act as corporate religious bodies for providing and organising a range of services in religious tourism. Detailed studies of two sites - Vrindavan and Shirdi - provide the empirical data. The pilgrimage-town of Vrindavan in the state of Uttar Pradesh in north India represents the former; the pilgrimage town of Shirdi in the western state of Maharashtra is an example of the latter. Vrindavan is associated with traditional religious practice and sacred geography pertaining to the Hindu god Krishna while Shirdi is dedicated to a 20th century saint, Sai Baba. Consequently, the former involves elaborate rituals and performances while the latter is fairly limited in terms of visitors’ engagement, and exhibits more mass-tourism-like features. The analytical triad of religious geography - specialists - performances is used to explore the range of management systems involved in the religious tourism of the two sites. It is found that the transformations of the religious tourism economy from a traditional pilgrimage practice bring in uneasy tensions: while religious actors actively participate in promotion and management of the religious tourism economy at local levels, they hardly shoulder responsibilities of addressing the negative environmental impacts. Thus, there is often an ‘institutional vacuum’ in dealing with both direct and indirect impacts of religious tourism. The paper shows how the reality of religious tourism is at odds with the state’s envisioned role since it largely operates beyond the state-policy framework. The paper argues that identifying the formal and informal systems in management can help to better address the multi-faceted impacts of religious tourism and contribute in developing measures for its sustainability.

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Buddhism, as a religion, includes a variety of traditions and beliefs based on the philosophy and doctrines of Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha. Buddhism has spread extensively throughout India since a long time. Buddhism acts as a significant component in the religious history of Odisha. Buddhism had influenced the social and cultural life of Odisha since the Ashokan era. Odisha tourism has attracted tourists globally for its rich cultural heritage. The main purpose of the paper is to focus on the emerging role of Odisha tourism for promoting Buddhism in the global context. The research aims to investigate the link between ancient Odisha and Buddhist culture. The study further highlights the growth and development of the Buddhist tourist circuit of Odisha. The scope of the study is limited to the diamond-triangle of Odisha only. Based on the data collected through secondary sources, this paper makes an assessment of the extent of awareness and responsiveness of Odisha tourism sector for promoting Buddhism. In the concluding section, limitations of the study have been discussed and recommendations provided for undertaking more detailed investigations in the area.

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Made in bihar, bihar tourism : tagline contest.

Introduction

Bihar Tourism intends to organize an online “Tagline Contest” and invites people across India to write a creative tagline that best represents Bihar.

Eligibility Criteria

The participant must be above 10 years and a citizen of India.

Entries are open only for individuals and not groups/organizations.

Call for entries: 20th January 2022

Deadline for submission: 31st January 2022

Final result declaration: Result announcement date to be announced later.    

Terms of References

The tagline should be in English or Hindi.

The tagline should be crisp and short. (Not more than 5 words)

The tagline should be easily understandable and contemporary.

The tagline should resonate with the value of visiting Bihar and bring out the essence of Bihar Tourism.

The tagline should not have been previously published in any print and digital media and must not contain any provocative, objectionable or inappropriate content.

Terms and Conditions

The submission of entry is free.

The winning tagline will be the intellectual property of the Department of Tourism, Government of Bihar. The winner cannot exercise any right over it, after the acceptance of the prize. The Government of Bihar reserves the right to use the prize-winning tagline for promotional, advertising and display purposes and to assign it to any person or group of persons. The tagline can be adapted suitably as per the requirement.

Multiple submissions of tagline by the same participant would not be accepted.

The tagline design must be original and should not violate any provision of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 or any Indian law. Plagiarism/Copying of any nature would not be allowed.

Anyone found infringing on others’ copyright would be disqualified from the competition. The Government of Bihar does not bear any responsibility for copyright violations or infringements of intellectual property carried out by the participants.

The Government of Bihar does not bear any responsibility for copyright violations or infringements of intellectual property carried out by the participants.

The employees and wards of the Department of Tourism, Government of Bihar and Employment or its attached offices, or autonomous organizations/institutions working overall administrative controls

Department of Tourism not allowed to take part in this Contest.

A participant is required to ensure that his/her form is filled with accurate details since the Department of Tourism, Government of Bihar would be using this for further communication. This includes details such as name, photo and phone number. Entries with incomplete details will not be considered.

Department of Tourism, Government of Bihar reserves the right to cancel or amend all or any part of this Contest and/ or Terms and Conditions/Terms of Reference/ Evaluation Criteria. However, any changes to the Terms and Conditions/ Technical Parameters/ Evaluation Criteria, or the cancellation of the Contest, will be communicated.

There will be no notification to participants of rejected entries.

The selection committee reserves the right to close the contest without declaring the result if no suitable entry is received.

Rewards and Recognition

Best Entry Category: 1st 2nd and 3rd winners will be rewarded with Prize Money and Certificates

Prize Money -

First prize: Rs 25,000

Second prize: Rs 15,000

Third prize: Rs 10,000

Other (Appreciation category): 10 winners in other categories will be rewarded with exciting prizes and e-certificates.  

For any queries email at [email protected]

Ref: https://tourism.bihar.gov.in/en/events/tagline-contest

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