Tourism basically comprises that social cultural and economic phenomena of any place. There are a number of definitions given by various scholars on to tourism. but they all put emphasis on the sole concept that tourist is that person who visit outside that place where he lives from daily routine life for a sort Spain of time and then returns to his/her place. tourism has great significance for India and it has great and prosperous historic tradition. because it touches the different horizons of any country and social economic and cultural spheres. prosperous and developed tourism lead to the revenue generation which play an important role for the strong economic base of any locality or country. There are a number of sub fields which fall in their vicinity of tourism like ecotourism, sustainable tourism, pilgrimage tourism. most of the researchers have worked on the topics like ecotourism and sustainable tourism, but few of them drag their attention towards pilgrimage tourism which influences their various horizons of the countries and there social, cultural aspects. India attracted number of travellers in ancient due to its fabled wealth. Visit of Hieun-tsang, a devout Chinese Buddhist is an example of this. Pilgrimage tourist started prospering and got a boost when emperors like Ashoka and Harsha started building rest houses. Arathsastra pointing out the importance of the travel infrastructure which play significant role in the past.post independence, tourism continuously remained the part of five year plans. every year there are an increase in the number of pilgrimage tourists which positively impacts the respective locality or country but there are also a number of challenges like accommodation, environmental pollution, poor infrastructure, weak information mechanism and lack of disaster management mechanism.