Objectives of Ecotourism

Eco-tourism has a place in the major objectives for the management of Protected Areas in the state. The objectives of ecotourism management in the above context are categorized below:

- To provide compatible and sustainable tourism to provide enlightened wilderness experience to the visitors and local inhabitants.
- To impart nature education to different target groups i.e. children, teachers, bureaucrats, media persons, rural people and politicians who influence the policy making decisions at local, state and national level.
- To provide park/sanctuary interpretation facilities to generate conservation awareness among the visitors by discovering wonders of nature and its intricate relationship; and by bringing about change in perception about one's own natural and cultural environment.
- To strengthen the staff and infrastructure for managing the eco-tourism and interpretation programmes.
- Creating employment opportunities for local people to cater to the needs of visitors in raising taxi, hotels, engagement in rest houses, lodges etc.
- To generate sufficient revenue and make the activity of eco-tourism self sustaining as far as possible.
- Involve local people in recycling the revenue from tourism for improvement of resources and facilities in the villages by subsidizing alternate energy devices, improving educational and medical facilities.