The book covers almost all aspects of Tourism in Assam, a state in north-eastern region of India with unparalleled diversity of both nature and culture. Seeing tourism as a tool for regional development, the book addresses the local issues of tourism from the global perspective. It thus encompasses the trend tourism in global, national and state context, and deals with tourist resources, consumer behaviour and tourism potentiality of as many as fifty-nine pockets of Assam along with formulation of strategies for future tourism promotion in the state. This book, which is an outcome of intensive field investigation in all the existing and potential tourist spots of the state, will definitely cater to the need of tourists, general readers, tourism planners and policy makers, promotional agencies and academicians