Abstract
Sustainable tourism has the potential to contribute substantially towards the conservation of biological diversity due to its relatively low impact on natural resources. Well-planned tourism can serve a threefold purpose of promoting livelihoods locally, conserving biodiversity and provide an alternative to damaging development interventions such as mining, commercial plantations, and polluting industries. However, sustainable tourism or ecotourism has faced several challenges in India as it seeks to minimize adverse effects of the rapidly growing footprint of tourism in natural areas. This chapter traces the growth of the industry over the past few decades and documents learning from different ecotourism models across India, while suggesting a roadmap for the future
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