Greens protest Naidu's lake project
Environmental activists are up in arms against Mr N Chandrababu Naidu's pet tourism project around the Hussainsagar Lake in the heart of the city and have threatened to move the court to stop the
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South Africa acts to save fish stocks
Valli Moosa, South Africa's minister of environmental affairs and tourism has declared a state of emergency on the so-called linefish sector - fish that are caught with hook and line-and the ministry
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Ecotourism takes root in Argentina's Patagonia
This wind-swept Patagonian desert port is turning into fertile ground for more than tumbleweed as eco-tourism spreads from whale watching to inland tours of a petrified forest and a new dinosaur
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Eco-tourism in Gasa dzongkhag
Gasa dzongkhag, one of the most distant and least developed districts in Bhutan, will take a pioneering step towards practising community-based eco tourism with the principle aim of promoting local
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No easing of CRZ to up beach tourism
The Union government has ruled out any dilution of the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) to boost beach tourism . Union environment minister Suresh Prabhu told The Economic Times Sindhudurga yesterday
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Nepal plans garbage levy for all its peaks
Nepal, to deter foreign climbers from leaving garbage on its mountains, plans to extend to all its peaks a levy now collected only in the region around Mount Everest, a tourism ministry official said
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Mountains of waste : Nepals seeks solution
Nepal will try to deter foreign climbers from leaving garbage on its mountains by extending to all its peaks a levy now collected only in the region around Mount Everest, a Tourism Ministry Official
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Marketing wonders of wildlife
Nature lovers got together in Jaipur the other day to give a serious thought on how to market conservation. Without getting into the usual debate of how desirable it is to promote tourism in wildlife
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Foot and mouth scare hits U.K. tourism
As the foot and mouth disease continues to rage across Britain, it is beginning to hit countryside tourism which is a billion-pound industry and the only means of support for hundreds of small
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Oberoi hotel gets Green Globe
The Cecil, an Oberoi hotel in Shimla, has been conferred the Green Globe award by the World Travel and Tourism Council. The Cecil is one of 13 hotels in the world to have won this award, a press
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Quarantine could delay U.K. elections
Since foot-and-mouth disease broke out last month, it has devastated Britain's farmers, left wide areas of the countryside under quarantine and dealt a major blow to the country's tourism industry.
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Beat the blues in paradise park
Chenchuria, an otherwise sleepy tribal hamlet 26 km from Bishnupur in the Taldangra jungles is West Bengal's first model eco tourism park, the result of a plan drawn by the government in the early
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Madagascar seeks eco-tourists to help fight poverty
Pushing his way through the undergrowth in search of Madagascar's wide-eyed lemurs, Nirina the guide embodies Madagascar's potential to harness tourism to fight poverty. Pausing to point out a
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UN sees Chernobyl area as eco-tourism hot-spot
The area around Chernobyl, site of the world's worst nuclear accident nearly 16 years ago, should be promoted as an eco-tourism destination, a U.N. report suggested.
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Mexico sees tourism gold in marina network
The government of Mexico is proposing its biggest tourism development in 20 years, a network of upscale marinas around Baja California, which President Vicente Fox says is critical for economic
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Goa Beaches are awash with oil
Oil ships passing off the Goa coast from the Middle East to the far East have posed a serious threat of marine pollution along the Goan coastline, affecting the tourism industry
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Ecological degradation threatens Kullu Valley
Liberalisation and easy access to Kullu and Manali have put the picturesque valley on the world tourist map, but too much focus on tourism has led to massive ecological degradation with a disaster
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Eco-tourism centre at Sagar
Good news for nature lovers. The West Bengal government has decided to set up an eco-tourism centre at Jambudwip off Sagar islands. The island is likely to be opened to tourists from January next
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Kerala all set to promote first eco-tourism project
A 30-acre dense forest between the southern Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu is to be promoted as a unique eco-tourism venture with the potential to offer visitors leisure and adventure.
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Next step in shaping Singapore's image : Ecotourism resort
One of the projects that STB (Singapore Tourism Board) is working on is a resort-and-residential development on a cluster of islands to the south of Singapore. The Southern Islands projects is