ENVIRONMENTAL TOURISM AND ECOTOURISM

Abstract

Ecotourism is the environment sustainable tourism which is the fast growing concepts. It involves the tourism activity in which relatively undisturbed natural areas are travelled. It deals with living parts of the natural environment and thus focuses on environmental sustainability. It offers small scale alternative to commercial tourism. Management of natural resources can be taken as a special toal for the development of ecotourism. In recent time the improper utilization of natural recourses results destruction of biodiversity and hence floral and faunal species are becoming extinct. Ecotourism programmes may be introduced for the conservation of these natural resources. Thus the ecotourism involves effective sustainability planning, maximum social and economic benefits for local communities, minimum negative impacts on cultured heritage and minimum negative impact on the environment.