Subhajit Das

Assistant Professor

B.Sc. in Geography (Krishnath College, West Bengal, 2004)

M.Sc. in Geography (University of Kalyani, West Bengal, 2006)

Ph.D. in Geography (University of Kalyani, West Bengal, 2012)

My doctoral work is on “Tourism Industry and Community Development in Sikkim”. My professional career as a teacher started in the year 2006 and simultaneously I started my research career as well. The only source of my research funds was my service as I had opted for that rather than joining the ‘University Research Fellowship’ after qualifying NET (June, 2007) and  SET (2007).

Contemporarily, I am concentrating on the research works that are relevant to the multi-dimensional geographical aspects of tourism activities like Community based Ecotourism, Rural Tourism, Mass Tourism, Tourism Impact Assessment, Carrying Capacity Analysis etc. with the help of applying RS and GIS and other instrument based methodological approaches.

I taught parts of physical geography (geomorphology and geotectonic, soil geography, geological maps etc.) as well as the human geography when I joined the WBES as Assistant Professor in Geography at Haldia Govt. College during the time period from August 2009 to March 2010.

I preferred the same area of geographical studies for my classes when I joined Kalyani Mahavidyalaya (College) during the period from April 2010 to May 2013.

Presently (since May 2013), I am focusing mainly on different aspects and issues of human geography like social geography, geography of tourism though I take some classes on soil geography.

At present, I am interested in supervising post-graduate students and Ph.D. scholars in the field of issues and aspects of geography of tourism.

Prayag, G. and Das, S. (2016) 'Tourism in India: development, performance and prospects', in Hall, C.M. & Page, S.J. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Tourism in Asia. Oxon: Routledge.

Islam, M. & Das, S. (2017) “Travel Writing and Empire: A Reading of William Hodges’s Travels in India”, Post Scriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies, Vol. II, No. ii.

Das, S. and Islam, M. (2017) 'Hindu pilgrimage in India and walkability: Theory and praxis', in  Hall, C. M., Ram, Y & Shoval, N. (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Walking. Oxon: Routledge.

Das, S. and Chakrabarty, P. (2020) 'Crisis Communication Systems and Earthquake Preparedness of Tourism Sectors in LDCs: A Study on Nepal', in Hall, C.M. & Prayag, G. (eds.) Tourism and Earthquakes. UK: Channel View Publications, pp.51-64.

Karali, A., Das, S. and Roy, H. (2021) 'Forty years of the rural tourism research: reviewing the trend, pattern and future agenda'. Tourism Recreation Research, pp1-28. DOI:10.1080/02508281.2021.1961065

Das, S. and Bhattacharya, S. (2021) 'Factors affecting beach walkability-Tourists’ perception study at selected beaches of West Bengal', India. Journal of Outdoor Recreation 35, pp.100423 (1-12). DOI:100423. 10.1016/j.jort.2021.100423