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Rural tourism marketing is a subject that remains significantly
under-researched. Gunjan Saxena seeks to encourage a fuller
understanding of rural tourism marketing by uncovering the lived
experiences and enterprise of different actor groups as they
respond to the impact of tourism on their communities and cultural
identities. Marketing Rural Tourism presents actor narratives to
reveal nuances inherent in their practices and perceptions as they
develop, support or oppose tourism in their locality. By focusing
on actors' experience and enterprise involved in the ongoing
production, consumption and marketing of rural landscapes for
tourism, this book enables an insight into varied storylines that
underlie the processes of place making. Academics in the area of
marketing and tourism as well as development studies will
appreciate the contribution this book will make to the wider
marketing discourse that circulates about rural destinations. The
book will also be a valuable resource to undergraduate students
looking to incorporate fresh conceptual insights into their
projects, as well as postgraduate students looking to apply newer
approaches to conceptualising tourism or place marketing.
In 1994, twenty-year-old Gunjan Saxena boards a train to Mysore to
appear for the selection process of the fourth Short Service
Commission (for women) pilot course. Seventy-four weeks of
back-breaking training later, she passes out of the Air Force
Academy in Dundigal as Pilot Officer Gunjan Saxena. On 3 May 1999,
local shepherds report a Pakistani intrusion in Kargil. By mid-May,
thousands of Indian troops are engaged in fierce mountain warfare
with the aim to flush out the intruders. The Indian Air Force
launches Operation Safed Sagar, with all its pilots at its
disposal. While female pilots are yet to be employed in a war zone,
they are called in for medical evacuation, dropping of supplies and
reconnaissance. This is the time for Saxena to prove her mettle.
From airdropping vital supplies to Indian troops in the Dras and
Batalik regions and casualty evacuation from the midst of the
ongoing battle, to meticulously informing her seniors of enemy
positions and even narrowly escaping a Pakistani rocket missile
during one of her sorties, Saxena fearlessly discharges her duties,
earning herself the moniker 'The Kargil Girl.'Â This is her
inspiring story, in her words.
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