Determinants Of Sustainable Tourism- Evidence From The Tourist Destinations Of Western Ghats- A Need For A Closer Look
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This paper is an attempt of designing and developing a framework for employing the concept of tourism, in particular the eco-tourism – the gain from tourism without compromising on the yield from ecological balance. This paper gives a multidimensional view to the readers to look tourism as a need for the economic growth and on the other side its usual disturbance to the environment with a closer look in particular applied to various quality aspects of life promoted by sustainable development. Here, a framework which is proposed is not just confined to tourism locations, destinations or the pictures relating to the gain of it. Rather it includes the scope for further research to articulate and address the issues concerning to broad array of positive and negative shades of tourism developments and to explore the potential for sustainable call of an action to protect, preserve and purify the thoughts of human with regard to the exploitation of nature as a whole and forest in particular. Western Ghats – A spread in the state of Karnataka, A popular destination, naturally created heaven on the earth with entire elements of green and green resources have taken for the study for an in-depth look and thereby to propose the ways for sustainability to renew the interest in the impact of tourism on environment, society and culture.
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