Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve - Equitable Tourism Options
Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve - Equitable Tourism Options
Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve - Equitable Tourism Options
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
tourism; coastal impact of tourism and influencing consumer behaviour to<br />
promote sustainable tourism.<br />
There was a focussed exchange on issues of key concern with participants<br />
seeking to identify their priorities for consideration and making a genuine<br />
effort to improve mutual understanding and cooperation. CSD-7 seeks to<br />
reflect issues on which participants showed general agreement, areas that<br />
would benefit from further dialogue and elaboration, specific initiatives<br />
announced or proposed by the participants.<br />
In relation to coastal tourism, the need for decisions to be made at a local<br />
level through a multi-stakeholder process with regard to national and<br />
international frameworks was endorsed.<br />
It was proposed that new tourism developments should be required to<br />
include all relevant sustainable development considerations, including<br />
design and implementation of a comprehensive waste management<br />
programme.<br />
The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development at the<br />
7th session in New York on 19-30 April 1999 along with the UN General<br />
Assembly took a decision (Decision 7/3) on <strong>Tourism</strong> and sustainable<br />
development (b) To consult, as appropriate, with all major groups and local<br />
communities in the tourism development process, including policy<br />
formulation, planning, management and sharing of benefits, which could<br />
reflect the need to harmonize the relationship among the people, the<br />
community and the environment.<br />
The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development at the<br />
7th session in New York on 19-30 April 1999 along with the UN General<br />
Assembly took a decision (Decision 7/3) on <strong>Tourism</strong> and sustainable<br />
development emphasises (d) To undertake capacity-building work with<br />
indigenous and local communities in order to facilitate their active<br />
participation, at all levels of the tourism development process, including<br />
transparent decision-making and sharing of benefits, and to create<br />
awareness of the social, economic and environmental costs and benefits<br />
that they are bearing.<br />
In 5{a), it states 'To promote sustainable tourism development in order to<br />
Nilagiris : Fading Glory 54