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TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF VASHI CITY,
NAVI MUMBAI Mrs. Shaila P. Hajare
Department of Geography
Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil College, Vashi, Navi Mumbai.
ABSTRACT:
Tourism industry is the fastest and growing industry in the world. This industry is one of the
machines to generate employment opportunities for the local people and also we gain foreign
exchange earnings. These earnings are supported to the local economy. Due to strong economical
conditions, as a result it will change the face of local tourism place and it will maintain the standard
of living. Tourism is a platform to promote the local handicrafts and show our culture to the
tourists. The development of tourism is mainly based on nature of tourism and infrastructural
facilities provided to the tourists. Maharashtra state has great scope for the development of tourism.
But some tourist’s places are developed and some of them are potential. Minimum basic facilities
are essential for the development of tourism spots. In Maharashtra state, Navi Mumbai is one of the
richest municipal corporations. Vashi is one of the smart, commercial and planned city in Mumbai.
CIDCO is one the organization for development of new towns by planning and developing entire
urban infrastructure. In Vashi city there were many tourist spots like Mini Seashore, Sagar Vihar,
Joggers Park, Malls, and Gardens. CIDCO and NMMC take initiatives and make proper tourism
policy. It will help to develop tourism places.
Key Words: Tourism industry, exchange earning, development, potential
1.0 INTRODUCTION:
Tourism geography is the main branch of human geography, it is multifaceted industry. In the
world and now tourism is the largest service industry which provides employment and foreign
currency earning. Tourism is one of the sectors which plays an important role in development and
also generates foreign revenues. This sector is peaceful and reflects the nature and beauty of the
country. It helps people of far flung areas to promote their culture and norms, it also provide
opportunity to country to make a better image around the world. Economic development of any
tourist place depends on nature of tourism and infrastructural facilities provided to the tourists.
Tourism is a major industry and remains a valuable sector in many countries of the world. Tourism
also contributes significantly to the country's economy. Tourism is one of the best engines to
generate employment opportunity for local people, valuable market for the local arts and crafts and
local products. Foreign exchange earnings are helps to support the local economy. Tourists and
local people of the destination can play an important role for the development of tourism and
ultimately popularity of the destination.
Tourism industry in Maharashtra has a tremendous potential for growth. Attraction of
tourists is mainly depending on the tourism products. The basic infrastructure and the variety of
tourist themes offered by various destinations in Maharashtra. Mumbai is the capital of Maharashtra
state. A huge numbers of foreigners are come from other countries. Also it is natural port. All types
of infrastructural facilities are easily available in Mumbai. Navi Mumbai is a planned township
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which is located to the west coast of Maharashtra and it is very close to capital of Maharashtra
State. The city is being divided into two parts North Navi Mumbai and South Navi Mumbai. The
city was formed after including an area of 95 villages of Raigad and Thane district. The total area
included from the villages to form the city was 343.70 sq km. The Government of Maharashtra
approved the proposal of the city in August 1979. Navi Mumbai has been developed as an
environment-friendly city comprising beautiful landscapes with gardens and parks. Efforts have
been made to preserve the mountain terrains, lakes and green spaces which cover almost half of the
total area. Navi Mumbai is a well-planned and well-balanced modern city. It has been planned and
developed by the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO), a state public sector
undertaking registered under the Companies Act, 1970. Vashi is also planned and one of the
commercial and attractive city in Navi Mumbai. APMC is located in the heart of Vashi City. Inorbit
mall, Vashi railway station, APMC market, Mini shore, gardens, many pilgrimage and spiritual
places, Raghulila Mall, Sagar Vihar etc are the most attractive places in Vashi City. As a tourism
point of view these places are not developed because of lack of infrastructural facilities and lack of
wide publicity.
1.1 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES:
Tourism has become a major and an integral part of economic, social development, its nourishes a
country’s economy, stimulates development process, restores cultural heritage, and helps in
maintaining international peace and understanding, which provides employment opportunity for the
local people and foreign exchange earnings.
1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY :
The main objectives of the study are as below:
1) To examine the factors which are responsible for the growth of tourism in Vashi City
2) To strengthen the publicity of the tourism places in Vashi City.
3) To assess the level of satisfaction with respect to tourism in Vashi City.
1.3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY :
Present paper is based on primary data and secondary data which were collected through actual
field work and from published and unpublished print media respectively. A questionnaire was
prepared and filled by tourists. There were 100 tourists personally contacted during the holidays,
Christmas vacation and weekend. Here an attempt is made to assess the level of satisfaction of the
tourist by their views regarding the various facilities. For that purpose, nine indicators were selected
which is affected the levels of satisfaction of tourists. A Tourists’ views are noted as excellent,
good, satisfactory and unsatisfactory. It helps us to identifying whether tourists are satisfied or not.
was calculated by giving preferences to their views with numerical values like 8 to 10 for excellent,
6 to 8 for good, 4 to 6 or satisfactory and 0 to 4 for unsatisfactory. The factor wise level of
satisfaction is calculated and tabulated. The factor wise average values are calculated categorically
summing up the values given by the tourists and dividing the total number of the despondences who
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noted that category. These averages multiplying by respective frequencies would be given total
satisfaction and divided by the total frequencies for the respective factor would give the satisfaction
index for that particular indicator. The following formula is used for calculation of satisfaction
index.
Sti = ∑
Where, St = Satisfaction Index for the ‘i’th
factor.
Mi = Numerical values for particular level of satisfaction for the ‘i’th factor.
Ni = Number of respondents deriving the particular level of satisfaction for the
‘i’th
factor.
N = Total number of respondents for that factor for all level of satisfaction.
Then the ranks are given to these satisfaction indices.
1.4 STUDY REGION
Navi Mumbai is a planned township on the west shore of Arabian Sea. The city was mooted in
1971 to be another urban township of Mumbai by the Government of Maharashtra. Vashi is a small
commercial city located on the right bank of Thane Creek and rightly between Mumbai and Navi
Mumbai. The geographical location of Vashi City is 19° 4' N latitude and 72° 59' E longitude with
7 meters height above MSL. It is mainly a large industrial zone with small but very heavily
populated residential areas. It is a center of commerce, with many small representative offices of
various commercial and goods distribution companies. Navi Mumbai has a population of 1,119,477
according to the 2011. The population density of Navi Mumbai is 5819 persons per square
kilometer. Nerul is the most populated area of Navi Mumbai, with an population of 600,000,
followed by Vashi, which has an population of 400,000. The total area included from the villages to
form the city was 343.70 sq km. Vashi is commercial and residential city and APMC is one of the
attractions of people for trade and commerce. There are many tourism places having in the way of
tourism development. But strategic planning and infrastructure should be required for development.
CIDCO is responsible for development of planned nodes in Navi Mumbai hence analysis of
population in planned nodes is highly important as it shows whether CIDCO is successful in
archiving its objective to attract migrants in Navi Mumbai by offering good infrastructure because
CIDCO’s role in development of Navi Mumbai is restricted to planned nodes only.
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LOCATION OF VASHI CITY
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SECTORS IN VASHI CITY:
For Administration purpose, Vashi City has divided in many sectors like Sector 1 to 29. All sectors
are well planned.
1.5 TOURISTS PLACES IN VASHI CITY
1. MINI SEASHORE
Mini Seashore is one of the most attractions of people from Vashi. The two-kilometer stretch of
Mini Seashore is an excellent all-season getaway that's right outside your neighborhood. The
essence of this place is that it is a well-known hangout for not one, but all age groups. This is one
place that is visited by people throughout the day and is also considered to be quite a safe place to
hangout. The pavements of Mini Seashore get extremely crowded from morning with joggers, who
run throughout the two-km stretch, laughter club members, yoga practitioners and other fitness
freaks. Evenings are generally family time at Mini Seashore, which sees parents and children
enjoying the garden and the horse rides. Moreover, the place also houses several vendors who sell
some of most yummy snacks like chaats, ice golas, corn, kulfi, Chinese fare and more.
Walk and Jog: The two-km circular path at Mini Seashore will encourage for long walks and jogs.
Unwind in the beautiful garden: The adjoining garden will coax you to have a leisured chat with
your feet rested on the wet grass.
Take a boat ride: the Lake at Mini Seashore has a facility for boating, so you can always hire one
and enjoy the serene water while reading a book.
Horse and horse cart rides: The place has both horses as well as horse carts that are enjoyed not
just by kids but elders as well.
Satiate your taste buds: Who doesn't enjoy street food, and Mini Seashore offers a whole lot of
options from chats to Chinese that,
A peaceful environment for meditation: Thanks to its expanse, the place, whilst bustling with
activity, also provides a peaceful atmosphere. This place famous yoga or meditation. Boating
Facility: Peoples and their kids were enjoying at all moments time. Whole day from 8.00 am to
8.00 pm this facility is available. Different types boats are available (with rents) like Zorbi water
walking ball (Rs. 100/- per person, 10 minutes), Water Scooter (Rs. 200/- per rider) , Paddle ( Rs.
50/- per person, 20 minutes, only couple – Rs. 100/- and whole family Rs- 150/- ) and Motor ( Rs.
50 per person). Full charges allow from three years and above.
There is a great potential for tourism development in huge biodiversity, attraction of natural scenic
beauty, Joggers Park, center of meditation, many gymnastic equipments, etc. But there is no proper
maintenance of street light, audio system, cleanliness etc and these spot is not developed as
tourism. As compare to visitors these facilities are insufficient. So increase the facilities as a
tourism point of view.
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2. SAGAR VIHAR
Sagar Vihar is second most popular and attracted place in Vashi city. Actually Sagar Vihar is
garden or Savarkar udyan. There are varieties of flowers and plants are found in this garden.
Teenagers and couples always visit at this place. This place is a good place for the bird watching
and biodiversity-rich. But the coastline of Sagar vihar has been defaced with direct dumping of
debris and garbage by locals in mangroves and the indirect dumping of waste in drainages and
creeks by slum dwellers, which get collected in the mangrove roots during high tides. This place
needs awareness and protection.
Many youngsters are always visits at this site. Sagar Vihar also developed as tourism but lack of
maintenance, supervisor, proper legislation, infrastructural facilities, dustbins toilet blocks etc.
Therefore NMMC took proper manner and increase the facilities, make wide publicity. So outsider
will visit at this place and it helps to NMMC.
3. NAVI MUMBAI SPORTS ASSOCIATION
Navi Mumbai Sports Association (NMSA) is a Non-Government Sports registered Organization. A
group of young enthusiasts from different professions got together to form the Navi Mumbai Sports
Association, under the dynamic leadership of Late Barrister Sheshrao K Wankhede. Hon. President
Shri Ganesh Naik has turned the barren land given by CIDCO into an international sports complex.
It is governed by an elected body for promotion of sports, fellowship and fitness for individual,
families, schools, institutions and corporate bodies. For promotion of sports, Annual Camps are
held to select talents and rigorous work out are given to make them champions. Schools and
colleges are provided the association's infrastructure for sports and competitions. For fellowship, we
have affiliations with prestigious clubs across India and abroad for the benefit of our members.
All members of NMSA are coming from rich family. They have no problem of membership. So
they should be open to all, make wide publicity.
4. INORBIT MALL
This is one of the most famous attractive malls in Navi Mumbai. It is located at Vashi Railway
station which is opened on October 1, 2008. Inorbit Mall are a subsidiary of the K..Raheja
Corporation which is one of the largest retail houses in the country. The first mall was started in
Malad followed by Vashi. This mall in Vashi covers an area of 8, 50,000 sq. ft. and has been
designed by Chapman Taylor and Partners from UK. It receives the highest number of footfalls in
the city and was awarded the most admired shopping centre at the 2009 India Shopping Centre
Awards.
Facilities available at Inorbit, Vashi
The mall provides a host of amenities to ensure that the shoppers have a comfortable time shopping
here. Some of the facilities standby ambulance, ATM, Baby Care Room and Baby Change Unit,
special washroom for the physically challenged, Wheel Chairs, Car parking for physically
challenged and expecting mothers, Filtered Drinking Water available on all floors, First Aid
Assistance, Florist, Lost & Found Desk, Mobile Charging Unit on all floors, Currency exchange
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facility, Public Phone Booth available on every floor, 24*7 information desk, Travel Desk for
bookings of air and railways tickets or hotel bookings or rental of cars and coaches and travel
packages. There is also a Utility Service Bill Payment centre on the Ground floor & Second floor.
Brand Stores at Inorbit Mall, Navi Mumbai
Hypercity, Shoppers Stop, Lush, Catwalk, AND, Blue Tonic, Remanika, Allen Solly, 109F,
Watches & More, Ethos, Puma, Titan, Esprit, Juice, Woodland, United Colors of Benetton, Wills
Lifestyle, Scullers, Costa Coffee, William Penn, Cafe Coffee Day, Zuni, Foresight Opticals,
Bossini, Kazo, Provogue, Exquise Salon, KFC, Wildcraft, Esbeda, Archies Gallery, Cookieman,
Body Shop, Zodiac, Sia, Karigar, Hobby Ideas, Pot Pourri, Westside, Samsonite, Regal, Biba,
Mochi, Global Desi, Orra, Mens Boulevard, Max Lifestyle, Hidesign, Mont Blanc, Adamis,
Tanishq, Neerus, Lace, Hastakala, Gatha, Cheemo, The Bombay Stores, Spaces, Kaysons, Fabindia,
Jashn, Accessorize, Identiti, Adam Kids, Little Kangaroos, Panchvati, Raymonds, Roncato, Van
Heusen, Isvarah, Louis Phillipe, MenzTrendz, Gili, Me & Moms, Scram, Time Zone, HomeStop,
Nike, Spykar, Jealous, Reebok, Planet Sports, Naturals, Moti Mahal, Shamiana, Santino, Malgudi,
Bhagat Tarachand, Sanskriti, Subway, Kailash Parbhat, Falafels, Staples, Kaya Skin Clinic,
Crossword, Jumbo Electronics, Bose, Swirls, Reynolds, Sayonara, Chimp, Twisted, Proline, Fitness
Planet, Pepe Jeans and Levis Sykes.
5. GAEDENS / UDYANS
Gardens are termed as lungs of the city. There are 176 gardens covering an area of 712982 Lac sq
m areas in NMMC. In Vashi City there were 20 gardens are located in every sectors. Inside the
gardens many facilities are available such as setting bench, walking track, varies of kids toys, etc.
Different varieties of flowers and plants are planted. A garden benefits the environment in many
ways. Plants are playing a very important part in keeping the natural world healthy. Plants reduce
pollution by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. All gardens are supervised under the
NMMC.
From the tourism point of view all gardens are beautiful places, many kids and seniors’ citizens are
daily visited. Lack of basic infrastructural facilities; all gardens not developed. Therefore NMMC
take initiatively and provide basic facilities and make a wide publicity. Ultimately increase the
number of tourists. NMMC should look from the tourism point of view.
1.6 FACTORWISE LEVEL OF SATISFACTION
Satisfaction Index is used for the assessment of factor wise levels of satisfaction, It is calculated as
Sti = ∑
Where as, Sti = Satisfaction Index for the ‘i’th factor.
Mi = Numerical values for particular level of satisfaction for the ‘i’ th factor Ni =
Number of respondents deriving the particular level of satisfaction for the ‘i’th
factor.
N = Total number of respondents for that factor for all level of satisfaction.
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Then the ranks are given to these satisfaction indices. Factor wise levels of satisfaction of the
tourist, I have considered ten different indicators. The total 100 local peoples and outsiders were
contacted at different places in Vashi City and their views about the facilities provided to them at
the destination. Factor wise levels of tourists is evaluated by collection of views given in the Table
I. Factor wise average is calculated and noted Excellent (67.5 per cent), Good ( 13.5 per
cent),Satisfactory ( 3.5 per cent) and Unsatisfactory (15.5 per cent). Overall experience of the
tourists’ levels of satisfaction of the tourist is high.
Table 1: FACTOR WISE LEVEL OF SATISFACTION
Sr.
No.
Factor Excellent Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory Total
1 Transportation 90 10 0 0 100
2 Accommodation 90 10 0 0 100
3 Food and drinking water 80 10 10 0 100
4 Shopping 75 20 5 0 100
5 Parking 95 5 0 0 100
6 About the city 100 0 0 0 100
7 Publicity 10 0 10 80 100
8 Public Toilets 5 10 10 75 100
9 Role of NMMC 40 60 0 0 100
10 Cleanliness 90 10 0 0 100
Average 67.5 13.5 3.5 15.5 100
1.6 .1 FACTOR WISE AVERAGE VALUES OF SATISFACTION
Factor wise average values are calculated. For that purpose the tourist were asked to assign points
(out of ten) for particular level of satisfaction they derived from each factor. Distribution of ten
points like 8 to10 points for excellent, 6 to 8 for good, 4 to 6 for satisfactory and less the 4 for
unsatisfactory. The average values for the different levels of satisfaction for different indicators are
given in Table II
Sr.No. Factor Numerical Values for
Excellent Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
1 Transportation 9.8 6.1 0 0
2 Accommodation 9.9 6.4 0 0
3 Food and drinking
water
8.7 6.4 4.7 0
4 Shopping 9 6 4 0
5 Parking 9.8 6.4 0 0
6 About the city 10 0 0 0
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7 Publicity 8 0 4.1 4
8 Public Toilets 8.1 6.6 5.8 4
9 Role of NMMC 8.7 7.5 0 0
10 Cleanliness 9.9 6 0 0
1.6.2 SATISFACTION INDEX
The ranks 1 to 10 are given to these indicators, which is given as per priority (rank order) given by
tourists. These satisfaction indexes are weighted by giving ranks as given below table III
Table 3: SATISFACTION INDEX
Sr. No. Factor Satisfaction
Index
Positional
Rank
1 Transportation 9.43 4
2 Accommodation 9.55 3
3 Food and drinking water 8.07 7
4 Shopping 8.15 6
5 Parking 9.63 2
6 About the city 10.00 1
7 Publicity 4.41 10
8 Public Toilets 4.65 9
9 Role of NMMC 7.20 8
10 Cleanliness 8.58 5
1.7 CONCLUSION:
Vashi city is a famous for commercial and residential purpose. Vashi is one of the attractions of
peoples for trade and commerce. Every day thousands of people come from surrounding areas only
for marketing. After the analysis of tourist’s satisfaction index, the level of satisfaction of the tourist
by noting their views about tourists are fully satisfied with planned city of Vashi as well as NMMC
has provided parking facility, local trains, NMMT, KDMT, BEST buses and wide variety of
accommodation facilities in Vashi city. There is great potentials are available for the tourism
development. But lacks of infrastructural facilities like food and drinking water, shopping,
publicity, public toilets, all attraction are not fully developed as tourism point of view. The main
role NMMC and CIDCO is important, make a strategic policy about the tourism development, they
also provide or develop infrastructural facilities to the tourists, tourist will ultimately attract towards
Vashi city. It helps to strengthen the economy of Vashi; it will be generate the employment
opportunity to the local people.
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PHOTOGRAPHS
Mini Seashore Joggers Park
Joggers Park with Rest Tent
Boating Facilities Motor Bike for Kids
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Playing Games for Kids Gymnasium Instruments
Sagar Vihar Gymnasium Instruments for Kids
Senior Citizens Center Navi Mumbai Sports Complex
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