Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve - Equitable Tourism Options

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