ECOTOURISM
CHARTER - Guidelines for local Community
- Community
should strive to strengthen, nurture and encourage the traditional
skills, particularly home-based arts and crafts, agricultural
produce, traditional housing and landscaping that use local natural
resources in a sustainable manner.
- Respect
the value of environment and cultural heritage. Be friendly with
the eco-travelers; perform the role of 'eco-guide' and 'conservationists'.
To remain fully aware about the private tour operators who could
exploit the natural and cultural assets for their own benefits
and avoid over exploiting the area.
- Cooperation
with Government authorities and private operators for ensuring
healthy ecotourism.
- Local
individuals should sell produce and handicrafts to visitors directly
or through tourism businesses. This has often proved to be a good
way of spreading benefits within a community.
- Communally
owned and run enterprises should be promoted. Sometimes these
suffer from lack of organisation and incentives, but this can
be overcome with involvement of the NGOs and institutions capable
of transferring requisite skills to community members
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