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Smart Tourism Innovations for Smart Region, Case of Jaipur Metropolitan Region, India

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Jaipur city since its inception has flourished as an administrative, economic and cultural center. Jaipur gained the status of a Million Plus City in 1991 and was recognized as a metropolitan region in 2010. During the post-independence planning era, there have been marked deviations in the growth and development in Jaipur, be it related to the spatial spread of the urban area or the growth of population. With the spatial spread and population growth, the city and its region are not bereft of problems. Understanding of Jaipur region has highlighted that secondary and tertiary sector play a dominant. The dynamics and interdependence between the sectors has led to identification of the prime potential segment that may lead the region out of the environmental imbalance into which the region is fast plunging. The problems that have come to be associated with these very large regions need to be address with the use of technology and innovation. The answers to these may lie in the smart context which has been explored in this chapter in the context of Jaipur Region. Authors have suggested a vision based on the issues and potential of the region within current policies of central and state government. Strategies are proposed for increasing the regional economic resilience through locally-based, regionally-driven development initiatives based on technology and innovation focused on smart tourism.

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    An urban settlement that is not administered by a statutorily notified body and has population above 5000, with at least 75% of main male working population in engaged non-agricultural activities, based on which it is recognized as a town by Census of India (Censes of India, 2011).

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    Community or neighborhood.

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    Grain markets.

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    Metal embroidery on cloth typical of Rajasthan.

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    A deed to a property.

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    A stepwell, traditional water harvesting system in Rajasthan.

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    A spring.

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Bedi, P., Tripathi, N.G., Singh, H.B. (2019). Smart Tourism Innovations for Smart Region, Case of Jaipur Metropolitan Region, India. In: Vinod Kumar, T. (eds) Smart Metropolitan Regional Development. Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8588-8_9

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