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Women Entrepreneurship and its Scope in Tourism Sector in Telangana


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Women entrepreneurship enables women capable of initiating, organizing and running a business enterprise individually or collaboratively, through employment generation to others initiate self-development and achieve financial autonomy. Entrepreneurship is about undertaking risk and handling economic uncertainties of a business. As per McKinsey Global Institute women equality could add 12 trillion dollars to global growth by 2025. With its 9.6% contribution to India’s GDP in 2016-17, accounting for 9.3% of countries total job Indian tourism sector has the prospective to drive economic growth, to pull women out of below poverty line and provide dignified sustainable employment. This paper is an attempt to assess the current position of women entrepreneur in Telangana tourism sector, addresses women entrepreneur problems and initiates suitable recommendations.

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Women Entrepreneurship, Scope, Tourism Sector, Telangana.
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P. Suneela Bharathi
Department of Master of Business Administration, Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology, India

Abstract


Women entrepreneurship enables women capable of initiating, organizing and running a business enterprise individually or collaboratively, through employment generation to others initiate self-development and achieve financial autonomy. Entrepreneurship is about undertaking risk and handling economic uncertainties of a business. As per McKinsey Global Institute women equality could add 12 trillion dollars to global growth by 2025. With its 9.6% contribution to India’s GDP in 2016-17, accounting for 9.3% of countries total job Indian tourism sector has the prospective to drive economic growth, to pull women out of below poverty line and provide dignified sustainable employment. This paper is an attempt to assess the current position of women entrepreneur in Telangana tourism sector, addresses women entrepreneur problems and initiates suitable recommendations.

Keywords


Women Entrepreneurship, Scope, Tourism Sector, Telangana.

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