What is Eco-Tourism & Why is it Important?

Eco- travel is all about making conscious choices while travelling, which shares the goals of cultural and environmental awareness. The preservation and betterment of nature and its local population. Think about it as \”sustainable\” travelling, eco-tourism is all about sustainability reducing your environmental footprint, and make better decisions along the way that will positively impact the environment, the animals, and people in the world.

Eco-travelling mainly encompasses Eco-lodging, Agro tourism, Community development & Eco-Treks.

The key points of \”eco-tourism\” are:

Supporting local communities.
Reducing your footprints in the environment and resources.
Avoiding the actions that will affect nature.

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Eco-tourism can be outlined as \”Responsible travel to natural areas which conserve the environment and improves the welfare of local people\”.

Why \”Eco-Travelling\” is important?

Over the decade, more people started traveling and started to take traveling as a career. In 2017, 1.3 billion traveled the world(which is insane!!), and such massive numbers have their own impacts.

Positive effects being so many people getting to learn about different cultures and learning about people from different communities.

But with such numbers of tourists, negative effects on nature is huge. India is the most visited country in the world. It has its own consequences. The majority of people travel in summers with the high demand for accommodation, rental prices are raising its bar. Local people are unable to afford the increases and local culture is suffering.

With that, the use of use and throw items like plastic and tissues are harming the environment.

Using eco-travel principles, we can help curb the negative effects. If eco-traveling is done correctly, environmentally friendly products are used, there is little destruction to the natural environment, and local cultures.

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