Volume : V, Issue : III, March - 2015

ROLE OF NGO‘S IN TOURISM

Manzoor Ahmad Khan

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Tourism is one of the largest industries of the world having direct as well as indirect impact on a major chunk of world population. Once believed to be clean and non–polluting industry, is now under scanner for its negative impacts. Many popular tourist destinations are now counting the cost of socio–economic development that has failed to protect their interests. The impact of tourism is extremely varied on one hand, its role in socio–economic and political development cannot be negated but on the other hand it has created problems of environmental degradation along with negative impacts on culture and tradition of locals. These challenges have given rise to the demand for more sustainable development in tourism. Different stake holders shall have to be involved in the process of developing sustainable tourism. Therefore in order to find a constructive response to these problems, NGO’s can play a positive role by understanding the way it affects the populance especially those living in tourist areas, by working towards better conservation of the resources and contributing towards increased environmental consciousness of the local people in its development and management by justify yields, benefits and ensures their fair distribution, and also puts long term social and environmental benefits ahead of short term socio–economic gains.

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Manzoor Ahmad Khan ROLE OF NGO¥S IN TOURISM Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 3 March 2015

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