Abstract
Mountain tourism poses a peculiar paradox to the developers. This can be benign and malign, depending upon the alertness of the planners. Only a high grade expertise of interdisciplinary nature can resolve the ever present dialectical tension between economy and ecology; autonomy and dependence. Control mechanism is only possible when the planners know what developmental potential and what developmental carrying capacity do the mountain areas possess from economic, ecological, political and cultural point of view. The paper presents three sample studies from the high Himalayan regions from India (Ladakh aud Garhwal) and Nepal (Khumbu) Himalayas, highlighting the negative and positive impacts of tourism.
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