International Research Journal of Education and Technology

Travel and tourism is the largest and fastest growing industry across the world and in our country India. Tourism is an incredible way to showcase West Bengal rich and magnificent history, culture and diversity.  Tourism, literally speaking, is the act of travelling a new place for your pleasure or business with the motives of experiencing different cultures, cuisines, nature and history. The main objectives of this research paper is to highlight the famous tourist place in Malda district, to examine the positive and negative impacts of tourism, to give valuable suggestion for better development of tourism in the study area. Malda district of West Bengal has been selected as the study area which is popularly known as “City of Mango”. The entire study is based on secondary sources of data.  The study reveals that natural beauty, geographic locations, cultural and artistic diversity of Malda district offers enormous opportunities to the local people. Malda district is place of great historical significance. Malda district has great potential for developing heritage tourism. Most of the places of this district are very beautiful with the amalgamation of the mosque, monuments, forts and temples. The future of tourism in West Bengal state is very bright and the state has the potential to become a national tourist hub.

Keywords: Tourism, Gour, Forests, Livelihood, Culture, Cuisines, Mosque, Englishbazar