ABSTRACT
Since time immemorial, tourism in hilly areas has been considered and confined to be leisure centric and recreation oriented. This demand-led orientation was a mere perception of the tourists and supply means and ways were largely ignored. Tourism in hilly areas is believed to have been a mean of spending from disposable and discretionary income mostly for nonessential activities. On the other hand, it has been empirically proved that the degree of income from tourism largely influences the degree of acceptability and reliability of tourism in a region along with the changes and adoption of new orientation of sustainable development. This article has dealt with a relationship between income and tourism with other issues addressed in destination development literature that are essentially striving to achieve an equilibrium between demand (or marketing) and supply (or destination) parameters. More specifically, this chapter has shown how tourism phenomenon is influencing the community income and vice versa.
