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Impacts of ecotourism in Rajiv Gandhi National Park (Nagarhole), Karnataka

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  • Nichola Ramchurjee

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Ecotourism potentially provides a sustainable approach to tourism development in national parks. The paper focuses on ecotourism impacts and the status of wildlife within the Rajiv Gandhi National Park (Nagarhole) situated in Karnataka. It explores a multitude of interactions that exist among wildlife, conservation efforts, socio-economic, and relocation attempts of the tribal people in the park. Field exploration was undertaken to identify the impacts of ecotourism. The results revealed the ongoing effort by the government to relocate the tribal people within the park and the difficulty faced by park officials to cope with the numerous impacts and conservation strategies in the park. The tourists were engaged in different ecotourism activities and made an observation on the lack of educational awareness and biophysical impacts such as littering and vegetation damage. This paper will contribute a greater understanding of the impacts of ecotourism management for sustainability of the national park. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

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  • Nichola Ramchurjee, 2013. "Impacts of ecotourism in Rajiv Gandhi National Park (Nagarhole), Karnataka," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 15(6), pages 1517-1525, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:endesu:v:15:y:2013:i:6:p:1517-1525
    DOI: 10.1007/s10668-013-9449-x
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    1. María Camila Sánchez-Prieto & Antonio Luna-González & Alejandro Espinoza-Tenorio & Héctor Abelardo González-Ocampo, 2021. "Planning Ecotourism in Coastal Protected Areas; Projecting Temporal Management Scenarios," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(14), pages 1-13, July.

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