Evolution of Shakti Peetham for religious, mythological and dark tourism in Indian sub-continent

• Debasish Batabyal ^[1] ; Dilip Kumar Das ^[2] ; Subir Kuamr Sen ^[3] ; Abhisek Porya ; Harsanglian Halam ^[4] ; Pratim Chatterjee ^[1]
  1. [1] Amity University

     Amity University

     IN.36.141.7279602, India

     
  2. [2] University of Burdwan

     University of Burdwan

     India

     
  3. [3] Tripura University

     Tripura University

     India

     
  4. [4] Government Degree College

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• Localización: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, ISSN 1645-9261, Nº. 39, 2022, págs. 291-300
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Given the growing importance of age old cultural and mythological tourism with many other related distinctive niches, the purpose of this paper is to contextualize the impacts of Shakti Peetham on such tourism practices in South Asia. This mythological context of Shakti Peetham has several importance in age old cultural tourism to contemporaneous sustainable pilgrimages with issues associated with many niches such as dark tourism, animal sacrice and typical Tantric rituals in Hinduism etc. This paper discusses about the concentration of those places in and to the Eastern India of South Asia and focusing on upcoming mythological tourism, dark and tantra tourism potentialities with a circuit development approach through Vehicle Routing System (VRS) for sustainable pilgrimage.