Political factors influencing residents’ support for tourism development in Kashmir

Aasif Ali Bhat is a PhD scholar at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (Katra, Jammu and Kashmir, India). He is also an awardee of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Doctoral fellowship administered through the Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE), Hyderabad. His research interests include the political economy of tourism, community tourism development and efficiency analysis.

Dr Kakali Majumdar is presently working as Associate Professor at the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu. Dr Majumdar has authored, edited a number of books and book chapters and published more than 50 research papers in the refereed journals of international and national repute.

Ram Kumar Mishra is a Senior Professor and Former Director at the Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE). He did his PhD at the University of Rajasthan. He is a Visiting Fellow at London Business School (UK); he also studied for the International Teachers Programme at SDA Bocconi, Milan. Dr Mishra taught at the University of Bradford and was a Visiting Professor at Maison Des Sciences De L’ Hommes, Paris and Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a member of the UN Task Force on International Taskforce on Standards of Excellence in Public Administration and Education. He has been a Management Consultant to several organizations including DFID, Deloitte, Adam Smith Institute, ADB and Centre for Good Governance. His areas of interest include corporate governance, international management, international finance, public-private partnership and restructuring and environmental administration.