India as a country is extremely popular for its natural landscape, with each of its states and cities standing out for its extraordinary natural cover and habitat. However, of late, it has been observed that the natural environmental spread is fast diminishing, with multiple environmental challenges threatening us right in the face.
In the wake of these developments, the need of the hour is to find a solid reason to motivate people to keep their environment safe and sound. That brings us to eco-tourism. Eco-tourism essentially deals with preserving the environment and working towards sustainability goals to attract local and foreign tourists and ultimately generate income from this exercise.
At the Tribhuvan College of Environment and Development Sciences, one of the leading environmental science colleges in Delhi NCR, students are already showing interest to venture into eco-tourism and are also collectively working towards safeguarding the environment. So, today, through this blog, we would like to urge everyone reading this write-up to factor in environmental impact whenever you plan your trips. Let us now have a look at how eco-tourism contributes to the betterment of the environment:
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Conscious Efforts towards Environmental Protection:
One of the major concerns that we as a nation are struggling with is our inability to get every citizen to act responsibly and in the interest of the environment. Be it air pollution or harmful emissions let out into the environment by vehicles, people are least bothered about the harm they are doing.
This is where Eco-Tourism pops into the picture. Eco-Tourism is currently a frontrunner in creating a clan of eco-entrepreneurs who have come forward to venture into eco-tourism. This has, in turn, created plenty of work opportunities.
The newness associated with eco-tourism has created curiosity among people, not just the ones living abroad but locals who otherwise live in concrete jungles. Overall, this is working out in the interest of the people as well as the nation as a whole.
At the Tribhuvan College of Environment and Development Sciences, we have made it a point to merge the curriculum with these upcoming concepts so that our students get the necessary direction early on. Nonetheless, safe to say that eco-tourism has sown seeds for responsible environmental protection.
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Creates Environmental Awareness:
The reason why people find it difficult to work in the interest of the environment is because, in most cases, they are unaware of the harm they are doing. Most people fail to share a healthy relationship with the environment they live in, which is why they continue to remain least concerned about the good or bad that is being done to the environment.
This is where eco-tourism comes to the rescue of the environment. This activity makes people more aware of all the resources they are extracting from the environment. Eco-tourism attempts to make people understand how difficult their life would be in the absence of support from the environment that they today thrive in.
As people become more aware of their environment, they start making efforts to bring amends in the way they operate. Most people even take it upon themselves to not just individually be the change but also focus on educating others around them.
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Helps Safeguard the Future:
At the Tribhuvan College of Environment and Development Sciences, we remind our students repeatedly about the not-so-pleasant fate of the environment if we tend to turn a blind eye to all the harm that is being done in today’s day and age.
Here again, eco-tourism does the trick by not just safeguarding the interests of the present generations but being compassionate towards the requirements of future generations as well. Now that eco-tourism instills a pro-environment culture, it makes way for more people to come forward and join the gang.
Eco-tourism highlights the need for all species, flora, and fauna to live in harmony with one another, something that has been an ignored reality for a long time now. People who venture into eco-tourism ultimately go on to pass this line of business to their upcoming generations, which means there is no room left to make mistakes and put the environment at risk.
A lot of learning also happens from experiencing and observing the eco-tourism culture. People who visit a certain area with the purpose of exploring the eco-tourism tangent, in some cases, go on to become eco-tourism entrepreneurs themselves. This only means a new environment section would then be coming under the protection and care radar.
Conclusion:
We at the Tribhuvan College of Environment and Development Sciences staunchly believe that eco-tourism tags along dual benefits. First of all, it works out as an excellent income generation activity. Secondly, it indirectly contributes to the need of keeping the environment well protected while not forgetting to keep environmental challenges at bay.
This is the reason why we are leaving no stone unturned in sensitizing our students about the concepts like eco-tourism. After all, as one of the leading environmental science colleges in Delhi NCR driven to work towards environmental management, it is our responsibility to ensure that our students know what they can do to keep the environment safe while also making sure that the nation walks on the path of economic development.