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Wednesday, 14 January 2009 |
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By cheema
ECOTOURISM- Now in India
In India, ecotourism is still mostly hype and inaction. The National Tourism Policy of 2002 is quite ambitious about eco-tourism. Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh also have ecotourism policies. But these are plans in government files. Outside the red-taped files, most of Indias forests are battlefields, with wildlifers/ conservationists on one side and forest-dwelling communities on the other. It is essential to ecotourism that the people living in the area take a lead in conservation and tourism. This still looks some way off.
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And just in case you dont have enough reasons to ecotravel, consider this: the United Nations General Assembly had designated 2002 as the international year of Ecotourism.
Ecotourism is a novel concept, an effort to make the global-rambler politically correct and free of guilt
Ecotourism, more than any other form of travel, demands that the tourist be able to reconcile the inner journey with the outer one. In simpler terms, |
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