Ecological and Environmental Impact of Tourism

Contents: Preface. 1. Tourism: the fundamental concepts. 2. Ecology and environment: the fundamental concepts. 3. Basic nature of man environment relationship. 4. Understanding legislative measures for the environment protection. 5. Tourism and ecology: mutual relationship. 6. Need to correlate tourism with the conservation of environment. 7. Tourism: types of active physical pursuits and the range of their impact on biological systems. 8. The Indian philosophy and mythology of environmental conservation ethics. 9. Tourism: need to understand disease Hazards. 10. Tourism: understanding the insect nuisances. 11. Need to develop eco tourism. 12. Observing wildlife : the distortion of normal behaviour of animals and measures to reduce it. 13. Hazards associated with larger animals along with preventive and remedial measures against these Hazards. 14. Tourism: recreational hunting and fishing along with its impact on ecology. 15. Tourism: enjoyment of scenery and its impact on ecology. 16. Ecological and environmental impact of sports tourism. 17. Tourist accommodation: hotels and their impact on ecology and environment. 18. Ecological and environmental impact of tourism and tourism industry on mountains. 19. Impact of tourism and tourism industry on the ecology and environment of wetlands: Islands and beaches. 20. Tourist support services: ecological effects of roads and resorts. 21. Ecological and environmental impact of tourism and tourism industry on vegetation and wildlife. 22. Tourism: infrastructural development and its impact on environment. 23. An analysis of the impact of tourist behaviour on the environment and local host population. 24. Environmental consideration in tourism planning for hill stations and coastal resorts. 25. The positive and negative impact of tourism on communitys socio-economic and cultural lifestyle along with the concept of community sustainable tourism. 26. Formulating policies and developing technologies to harness tourism potential for conservation of environment. Bibliography. Index.

The book at hand containing twenty six chapters deals with the concept related with various aspects of ecology and environment in relation to tourism and tourism industry. The first six chapters comprehensively deal with basic concepts of tourism fundamental concepts of ecology and environment man environment relationship mutual relationship between tourism and ecology need to correlate tourism with  environment and understanding the legislative measure for environment protection.

The book gives a very comprehensive account of various types of tourisms active physical pursuits observing wildlife, recreational hunting and fishing enjoyment of scenery sports tourism mountaineering rock climbing boating etc. together with their ecological and environmental effects on wildlife and host population. The book also contains comprehensive description of disease hazards insect nuisances hazard associated with larger animals for the benefit of the tourists.

A comprehensive account of the impact of tourism and development of tourism support facilities such as roads resorts hotels etc. on the ecology environment vegetation wildlife mountains beaches etc. is given in this book.

We have emphasised for balance development of tourism and for this we have mentioned the need for adopting Indian concept of environmental conservation ethics development eco tourism as well as community sustainable tourism.

The concluding two chapters of the book contain positive effects of tourism and the concepts of formulating policies and developing technologies to harness tourisms potential for conservation of environment.  (jacket)