ECO Tours

Ecotourism primarily means marketing the serene natural habitats as tourism ‘product’ with an inherent element of nature education. It is aimed to provide awareness to the visitor of the protective, productive and regulatory functions of the forests.

It is a purposeful travel to natural areas for understanding the natural and cultural history of environment, but taking due care not to alter the integrity of the ecosystem, while producing and providing economic opportunities that make conservation of natural resources beneficial to local inhabitants. It is a fast growing segment within international tourism.

It is truly a form of environmentally conscious tourism and not just a pursuit of remote pristine locations. It has to be sustainable with the continuous capacity to:

• Safeguard natural environment, the very basis of tourist attraction.
• Provide and maintain the quality of tourist experience and satisfaction, and benefit the local inhabitants in the area.

Any number of definitions are available for ecotourism, each focusing on a different aspect. An analysis of the developments in this sphere shows for over a period of past one and a half decade helps to discern certain important parameters emerged in common to all eco tourism developmental initiatives.

This understanding leads to conceptualise ecotourism as Any tourism programme that is:

• Nature Based
• Where education and interpretation are major components
• Ecologically sustainable,and
• Where local people are benefited.

If it does not satisfy any one of these components then it cannot be called a real ecotourism venture.