Assessment of Variables in Measuring Tourist Infrastructure

Tourism is one of the fastest mounting industries in India and Worldwide. Satara district is situated in the western India state of Maharashtra. It has a number of worth seeing tourist destinations but only prominent are noticed and visited by tourist. There is an opportunity to develop unexplored worth seen tourist destinations by giving cognizance to the tourist infrastructure. It was a task to structure the tourist amenities and facilities for exploring newer tourist destination. To probe into the depth of these connected amenities and facilities researchers have gone through the review and noticed 54 variables under 10 heads of tourist services and amenities. Of this researcher has selected 33 variables under nine heads for the present study. The one head 'Visa, Immigration and Custom carrying 6 variables excluded as these facilities not at all required to tourist to visit the locations in Satara district. The researcher found only domestic respondents during the visit. This head may essential to a foreign visitor. An objective of this paper is to check the viability of these 33 variables under nine heads viz. Air facility, Rail facility, Road Connectivity, Civic Administration, Traffic and Transport Management, Tourist facilities, Taxes and permits, Maintenance and Management of Tourist Attraction and Other services. To check the viability of compilation of these variables i.e. tourist facilities and amenities of tourist destination responses taken towards the importance of tourist amenities on a five-point scale from 326 tourists of 10 destinations of Satara. Opinions were analysed by using factor analysis. Nine factors have been extracted using the principal component method, which explains 68.96% of the variance. Extracted nine factors were labelled as, 'Civic Infrastructure', Tourist Infrastructure, 'Accommodation and Taxes,' Management of Tourist Attraction', 'Transportation Link', 'Quality And Convenience', 'Guidance And Conservation', 'Essential Service' and 'Peripheral Service'.