Vol. 1, Issue 8, Part E (2015)

Abstract
Tourism is the most popular form of recreations. Tourism has become one of the fastest growing industries and an economic and social phenomenon of major importance. Tourism today is a larger giant in terms of employment, investment, output and value. Sikkim is a landlocked Indian state located in the Eastern Himalaya. For such area, tourism is one of the ways to enhance economic development. This article analyses the temporal dimension of tourist influx in Sikkim, both the domestic tourist and foreign tourist. The seasonal variation of tourist flow in terms of peak influx period and off-season also examine in this paper.