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Tourism is one of the main industry for various Indian states located in the Himalayan region, it has createdemployment opportunity and made the states of this region economically self sufficient, by generating revenue and foreigncurrency to promote infrastructural development. Tourism activities have a positive effect on the destination because itgenerates jobs directly through hotels, restaurants, souvenir and handicraft sales. Indirectly, jobs are generated throughsupply of goods and services required for tourism activities. The Indian states located in the Himalayan region areunderdeveloped and have no other source of generating income; tourism has become an important source of revenuegeneration and a component for economic and infrastructural development for these states. The Indian Himalayan regionstretches over 2,500 km from Jammu and Kashmir in the west to Arunachal Pradesh in the east. This great chain ofmountains in Indian territory extends all along the northern border of the country from the eastern border of the Pakistan onthe west to the frontiers of Myanmar in the east covering partially/fully twelve states of India, viz., Jammu and Kashmir,Himanchal Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram, Meghalaya and hillsof Assam and West Bengal (Fig. 1). All these states have angelic mix of rejuvenating gardens displaying colorful flowers,charming lakes, thick forests teeming with wildlife, inviting rivers and rich cultural heritage which makes the states lying inthe Indian Himalayan region one of the favourite tourist destinations, various tourism policies have been formulated by stateas well as central government to promote these destinations, promotional campaigns like, “Incredible India” has promotedall these states not only at national level but also internationally. The affect of these promotional campaigns is positive asthere is increase in arrival of tourist to these destinations, but for tourism to flourish you need a peaceful environment andout of these twelve states seven states are affected by one or another form of terrorist activities so the positive affect of thesepromotional campaigns on tourist’ s mind turns into a negative affect when a destination promoted by these campaigns comeunder terrorist attack

Mr. Vikram Singh, “AFFECTS OF TERRORISM ON TOURISM INDUSTRY IN THE HIMALAYAN REGION”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 8, pp. 573-579, August 2017.