ABSTRACT
Tourism is one of the major businesses in any country and also contributing to the economic development of the nation besides exploring the culture, tradition and natural resources. Ecotourism is a major step towards attaining sustainable practices in the tourism sector and promoting the economical development with equitable resource mobilization. Many countries during the recent decades have witnessed the importance of tourism to attract the foreign visitors and thereby generating considerable income generation with the involvement of local resource exploration. Environments are always a changing phenomenon and because of the vast developments in the tourism sector and modern practicing styles of human being large quantum of wastes are disposed in the natural resources and thereby conservation of nature is a major challenge in the developing nations. Increased consumption of natural resources, deforestation, industrial developments, exploitation of wildlife and improper dumping of wastes in the natural places are the major challenges to the ecotourism besides varied climatic conditions. Lack of knowledge on the protection of the environment among the tourists is also one of the reasons for increasing waste disposal in the tourist areas. The governments need to train knowledge and value-oriented manpower for the servicing sectors of the tourism area so as to maintain ecological balance and to minimize the impact of pollution on the natural environment.
154The present chapter describes about the theory and major practices for ensuring ecotourism and strategies needed to promote healthy and sustainable development in the tourism sector in order to build inclusive and ecologically sound tourism areas for the future.
