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1 Tourism Potential Suitable Forts Sites in Pune District 1 Prof. Shivaji B.Shinde, 2 Dr. T.A. Shitole 1 Research Scholar, TMV, Pune 2 Prof. Ramkirashan More College, Akurdi, Pune ABSTRACT In the recent years tourism has grown in India from local economic activity to a major global industry giving employment to a large number of peoples at various levels. Pune district is one of the India with a great potential for tourism. Thus, Pune is rich in physical, cultural, historical, archeological, heritage and religious sites. Even though there is a great potential for tourism in Pune district, the district lacks planning for tourism and supporting infrastructure. In this paper an attempt is made to study the GIS will be as a tool for site suitability for known as well as unknown places in the Pune district of Maharashtra. With considering gravity of this subject, the research has under taken Pune district. Moreover, such study may provide potential suitable sites to increase the tourist to be visited, to boost tourism in the Pune to its full potential. INTRODUCTION Tourism is considered as one of the world s largest industry. India is a developing nation. The geographical variations from north to south and east to west in India are favorable for tourism. Maharashtra has different geographical regions such as Konkan, Western Ghat and Plateau region i.e. Desh. These geographical differences produce lots of places of interest in the state. The geographical environment provides a greater scope for tourism potential. For instance mountains, rivers, waterfalls, forests and wild life etc. act as center of tourist attraction. The potential for tourism development in any area largely depends on the availability of recreational resources such as mountain peaks, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, reservoirs, forts, historical monuments, an object of art fair or festival, also a person can be a tourist resource in addition to factor like climate, accessibility, attitude of local people, towards the nature and the extent of tourism development. STUDY AREA The study area, Pune district, usually termed as the cultural capital of Maharashtra. It is situated at 559 m ASL and lies between 17º 54 to 19º 24 N Latitude and 73º 33 to 75º 10 E Longitude. The total geographical area of the district is 15643sq.km. The district headquarters or the district place is Pune. The district consists of 14 tahasils. The area of district is surrounded by Thane district in the north and northwest, Raigarh district in the west, Satara district in south, Solapur district in the south and southeast and Ahmadnagar district to the east. (Fig. 1) OBJECTIVES Against the above background, the present work attempts to study the Tourist Information System for tourism development in the Pune district. The broad objectives of the proposed study are: 1) To collect the information about tourism facilities available in the study region. 2) To find out potential tourist forts sites and their suitability in the study area. 1 st August, 2017 Page No: 111

2 Location Map of Study Area Location of Maharashtra in India MAHARASHTRA International Boundary State Boundary Location of Pune District in Maharashtra GUJARAT MADHYA PRADESH km. CHHATTISGARH P U N E ARABIAN SEA KARNATAKA GOA ANDHRA PRADESH Statel Boundary District Boundary km. Locational Map of Pune District N Junnar Ghodegaon Wadgaon Rajgurunagar Shirur District Boundary Taluka Boundary Paud PUNE Haveli Daund District Headquat. Taluka Headquat. Velhe Saswad Baramati 18 Bhor Indapur 00 N 0 30 km E E Fig. 1 METHODOLOGY AND DATABASE In order to understand the potential suitable forts sites in Pune district, the methodology adopted for the present study is divided into three phases are namely pre-field work phase, field work phase and post field work phase. In the first phase i.e. pre-field work phase literature review i.e. previous work carried out by other researchers are obtained from various journals, internet, visit to the MTDC resort to know about annual tourist flow, collection of survey of India toposheets, Atlas, Gazetteers, District Census Handbook, Tourist maps, etc. use for collection of information, District Resource map of Pune district published by Geological Society of India, Government published map of Pune district P.W.D. map, Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and other were completed with help of S.O.I. toposheets (Fig. 2). In the second phase i.e. fieldwork phase extensive field surveys were undertaken, to existed forts. The questionnaire filled in this phase. During this field surveys tourist facilities regarding 1 st August, 2017 Page No: 112

3 destination photographs, GPS reading altitude and the related information is noted which were also useful to site suitability study. Fig.2 In the third phase i.e. Laboratory worked is carried out. Government published map of (PWD) Pune district is scanning, then digitization to generate thematic layer i.e. point layertourist places, tahasil headquarter, line layer- roads, railways, rivers and polygon layer- dams, reservoirs etc. and map were georeference same time. Integrating all above information and maps with help of GIS software various thematic layers were generated. Finally these thematic layers are analyzed to demarcate tourism potential zones and site suitability. NEW POTENTIAL SUITABLE FORTS SITE The term potential means something existing but not yet fully exploited. There are various criteria to selecting new potential suitable forts sites i.e. on the basis of phsiography, climate, and purpose of visit, on the basis of natural and cultural resources. The district has vast and rich tourism resource potential of different cultural background in all its 14 tahsils. We classified potential suitable forts sites on the basis of elevation (Table 1). Table 1: Tourism potential fort sites in Pune district Sr. No Name of fort Name of tahasil Elevation Class (m) Elevation (m) 1 Chakan Khed Rajmachi Mulshi Tung Maval Shivaneri Junnar Rajgad Velhe Purandar Purandar st August, 2017 Page No: 113

4 Potential suitable forts sites are selected in this manner they represent the entire Pune and same problem found in similar type of tourist centers in throughout the district (Fig. 3). Potential suitable forts sites are very rich in natural and cultural resources, these tourism resources are not fully utilized because inadequate tourist facility, lack of information regarding this centers. New potential suitable forts sites can provide more scope for a generation of employment opportunities due to increases tourist facilities in terms of different socio economic and marketing indicators also bring money and reducing the regional disparities in Pune district. New potential suitable forts sites will be reducing the pressure on existed tourist centers and also reducing the migration of local peoples towards the Pune city. The development of tourism of any region may be defined as the creation provision or addition of facilities, amenities and services to meet the needs of the tourist. The facilities such as accommodation, transportation, roads, communication, entertainment and recreation, natural attraction, vegetation, natural attraction and other infrastructural facilities etc. constitute the basic parameter of suitable forts site. An attempt has been made to analyze 11 micro aspects for potential suitable forts sites in Pune district. Fig. 3 MATRIX ANALYSIS FOR NEW POTENTIAL SUITABLE FORTS SITE The potential suitable sites have been analyzed on the basis of above mention parameters so as to judge qualitative and quantitative aspects of tourist infrastructure at these sites. These are natural attraction, vegetation, roads, public transport, and accommodation, 1 st August, 2017 Page No: 114

5 parking facilities, adventure tourism, recreation facility, drinking water, communication and medical facility. The matrix has been prepared based upon the weighted index method. The various parameters are given weightage on a 1 to 5 scale to find out overall tourist convenience at the potential suitable sites. Table 2: Matrix analysis for tourism potential fort sites in Pune district Suitable Site Parameter Purandar Chakan Rajgad Rajmachi Tung Shivaneri Natural attraction Scenic attraction pleasant weather Vegetation Evergreen Dry deciduous Shrub/bushes Roads Metalled Unmetalled Public Transport Accommodation Adventure tourism Recreation Parking facility Drinking water Medical facility Communication Total weight Source: Field survey Scale: 1(Low poor condition), 5(High condition) CLASSIFICATION OF TOURISM POTENTIAL FORT SITES The tourism potential fort sites have been analyzed on the basis of their total weight. They are classified such as highly suitable, moderately suitable, suitable, and least suitable. So, from the table 2 it is clear that only Purandar and Shivaneri scores high i.e. 42 and 48 respectively are highly suitable fort sites to be good tourism potential fort sites. Chakan and Rajgad score 35 and 38 respectively are moderately suitable fort sites. Rajmachi score is 31 as suitable fort site. On the other hand certain site like Tung score 30 is least suitable site on most counts. Most of the parameters can be improved immediately, without disturbing the environments of these forts to increase the tourism potential of these fort sites. Table 3: Classification of Tourism potential fort Sites in Pune District Sr. no. Name of fort Weight Remark 1 Purandar 42 Highly suitable 2 Chakan 35 Moderately suitable 3 Rajgad 38 Moderately suitable 4 Rajmachi 31 Suitable 5 Tung 30 Least suitable 6 Shivaneri 48 Highly suitable 1 st August, 2017 Page No: 115

6 CONCLUSION It is observed that in the present spatial distribution and patterns of tourist places in Pune district, physical factors (topography, climate) play an important role. Present study tries to provide an integrated plan for tourist places in the Pune district with some special case studies. Most of the parameters can be improved immediately without disturbing the eco-system, to increase the tourist potential of these new tourist centers. There are certain proposals for planning these new potential suitable sites to development the infrastructural facility which will boost the local employment generation in this region e.g. Chakan Purandar, Shivaneri Rajgad, Tung and Rajmachi etc. To give attention towards man power development and training through such study can be done by this project. REFERENCES: 1. Akmanchi Anand, (2002). Pune fire emergency management information system, Project report submitted to IIRS, Dehradum. 2. General Geography (Pune District) Standard Three (1993) Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research, Pune. 3. Harpale D.V. (2009) Identification of New Tourist Centers and Their Site Suitability A Case Study of Pune District Maharastra State unpublished thesis 4. Lo, C.P. and Yeung (2004). Concept and Techniques of Geographic Information System, Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, New Delhi, Nagarale, V.R. (2007). Site Suitability for Tourism Development with the help of GIS, A case study of Pune District Maharashtra. UGC Minor Research Project. 6. Pani Padmini, (2004). Geospatial Modeling for Identifying Aesthetic Spot for Tourism in a hilly Region, Project report submitted to IIRS, Dehradum. 7. Reddy Anji (2001). Textbook of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (Second edition) B S Publications, Hyderabad. 8. Singh, Kuldip (2007). Tourism Potential and Tourist Infrastructure in Amritsar, Institute of Town Planners India (ITPI) Journal Vol.4. pp st August, 2017 Page No: 116