India awarded for marketing eco tourism, not actually providing one!!

Last week, India got rewarded at Macau for marketing through different innovative means the essence and diversity of tourism industry by highlighting eco tourism. However, back home, the story is quite different. Except for a few dedicated and successful initiatives, eco tourism still has not being given its due. As one needs to protect the bio-diversity first and then think about making it available for tourists, it becomes an almost impossible task for bureaucrats to do the needful. So whatever efforts have been made are totally private funded/ managed.
Here at Mount Abu, there are a few places earmarked as eco sites. None are habitable and at times not even accessible. The tourism department, along with the Forest department must involve the locals to make things happen.

New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) India Friday won three prestigious awards at the international travel mart in Macau for its rural and eco-tourism projects, an official said here....
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Misty Abu

That's what I call "Paradise". Its misty, its cool and it ain't raining so much. So you can enjoy the wilderness to the fullest. What else would one desire after spending a cruel 5 days work at office and the traffic snarls. The best weekend getaway. Experience once and get mesmerized forever.

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Smart Enviropreneur

When it doesn't rain in Abu, people take recourse to the most unreasonable and primitive means to 'bring' rains. First, they'll call for a complete 'bandh' (strike) against nobody. Second, they'll arrange for a community get together and perform religious acts like 'yagya' and finally, try to convince the rain Gods to come down and bless the already sinned 'Hills of Gods'.Instead of all this drama, what they, including myself, ought to do is, first, start caring for the environment and plant more trees and save the already existing ones from being wiped out from the face of this planet. Second, invest more on water harvesting techniques which will surely help in allowing water to seep in and increase the ground water level. Third, live the idea of eco-tourism. It's not a far-fetched concept at all. In fact, its time for every individual to know the benefits of such environment friendly concepts. Rain is dependent on many natural processes, vegetation is just one of them.But here we are, lame, lazy, primitive and full of stupidity. For a change, i find it self consoling that at least Bib B knows the right way of doing stuff. And as a usual thing for him, he still carries on upholding the Green Brigade banner. Seeing him mowing the lawns the other day seemed like a ray of hope against all adversity. At least the next generation would have better explanations for their descendents.

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