Authors : Atish N. Patil and Ashok B. Koli
Page Nos : 149-152
Description :
Tourism is an industry concerned with attracting people to a destination, transporting them there, housing, feeding and entertaining them upon arrivals & returning them to their homes or it is an industry which deals mostly with consumers, attraction, money and people which provide them goods and services. Alate is a small village located close to Kolhapur, which attracts tourists in quite a large number. Alate village is having more than 5 holy places, which are religiously famous in this area. Alate village has became a pilgrim center of Shree Dhuleswar, Shree Allumprabhu, Shrre Shnkar (Ramling), Kunthugiri, Renuka Devi and Dargah. From which Ramling is known for their dwelling in forest of Prabhu Ramchandra with wife Sita and brother Laximan lived here for some period. People from Maharashtra and Karnataka are coming here, their statues and all temple construction is attractive and most importantly location of all these places in the adjacent area of outshouts of ‘Sahydri’ also known as ‘Western Ghat’. Therefore these are attraction for other religions people also. But infrastructure is not developed properly and promotion of this place is very less.
Keywords: Tourism, People, Holy Place, Pilgrim Centre, Religions, Infrastructure.
