India Environment Portal Knowledge for change

Search Results

• Bihar govt to invest on eco tourism in state

  Bihar government is betting big on eco-tourism, especially in Valmiki Nagar Tiger Reserve. The reserve is situated on the Indo-Nepal border and state government has recently inaugurated jungle safari for this area. The state government is also developing basic infrastructures to make it a tourist attraction. "A great number of tourists, both domestic and international, are now heading for Bihar. We want to provide verity to them," said Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, "this is why, the state government has begun its ambitious eco-tourism project.

  • 06/11/2012

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Valmiki NP
    • Tiger Reserves
    • Ecotourism
    • Tribals
    • Wildlife Tourism
    • Wildlife
    • Bihar

• Center mulls tourism master plan for Nagaland

  Kohima : The Central Government has proposed developing a number of tourist destinations in parts of Nagaland that enjoy better access to the “mainland side” in terms of connectivity and the proposal is

  • 26/07/2013

  • Shillong Times (Shillong)
  • • Nagaland
    • Tourism
    • Dimapur (D)
    • Kohima (D)
    • Wokha (D)
    • Mokokchung (D)

• Clean India campaign launched

  With an aim to attract more visitors to the country by improving cleanliness and hygiene at tourist destinations, Tourism Minister K. Chiranjeevi on Wednesday launched the “Clean India” campaign at world

  • 25/07/2013

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • India
    • Agra (T)
    • Sanitation
    • Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)
    • Delhi
    • Ministry of Tourism
    • Drinking Water
    • Maharashtra
    • Hyderabad (T)
• 

  New tourism zone will not choke lion corridor: government to HC

  The state government has informed Gujarat high court that the proposed new eco-tourism zone on the coastal region in Amreli district, in the outskirt of Gir sanctuary in the last abode of Asiatic lions,

  • 05/02/2015

  • Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
  • • Gujarat
    • Amreli (D)
    • Gir SA
    • Lion
    • Ecotourism
    • High Court
    • Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)
    • Wildlife

• Orissa as health tourism destination

  <br />BHUBANESWAR: Despite huge potential, the government has so far failed to sell Orissa as a health tourism destination.<br /><br />In a silver lining, MED Tour Corporation India has evinced keen interest in developing health tourism in the State.<br />

  • 10/08/2010

  • New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
  • • Orissa (Odisha)
    • Health Care
    • Tourism
    • Health
    • Development

• Norms allow limited tourism in core areas

  New Delhi: The Centre on Monday notified fresh guidelines on tiger conservation allowing “regulated low impact tourism” in the core and critical tiger habitat. “Since, tourism has been happening in

  • 16/10/2012

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Tiger Conservation
    • Tiger
    • Wildlife Tourism
    • Wildlife
    • National Parks
    • Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
    • India

• With mining down, Goa now pins hope on tourism

  PANJIM: While the mining industry has taken a beating this season, Goa’s tourism industry is upbeat as its season begins this week. Stakeholders, even though upset with delays and discrepancies are being cautious so as not to upset the tourism applecart which would probably bring some solace to the State economy. In fact the hotel industry claims that this year would bring in more tourists particularly domestic tourists who continue to be the high spending segment over and above international and charter tourists.

  • 15/10/2012

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Goa
    • Mineral-Based Industry
    • Tourism
    • Fuel Pricing
    • Mining
    • Economy
    • Habitat And Urbanisation

• Spice tourism planned in Dindigul village

  The Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC) will promote spice tourism at Thadiyankudisai in the Kodaikanal block of Dindigul district. The campaign will be implemented with a financial support of Rs.70 lakh extended by the Union Tourism Ministry and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Scenic surroundings

  • 26/05/2008

  • UNDP
  • • Tourism
    • Tamil Nadu
    • Dindigul (D)
    • Kodaikanal

• Govt, others differ on number of tigers, SC extends tourism ban

  Suspense over the exact number of tigers in India continued in the Supreme Court Wednesday when the Centre and other parties in a case relating to eco-tourism guidelines for the tiger reserves assumed

  • 04/10/2012

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Supreme Court
    • Tiger
    • Wildlife
    • Wildlife Tourism
    • India
    • Sundarbans
    • Census/ Habitat Monitoring

• MP asks SC to let it bend rules on tiger tourism

  The Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday contended before the Supreme Court that the Centre’s guidelines for regulating tourism in tiger reserves should be modified to meet local conditions, rather than imposing a blanket ban on tourist activities in tiger reserves across the country. Appearing for the state, former additional solicitor-general Vivek Tankha contended that the government has no problem in implementing the guidelines in spirit but not possible to follow it in letter.

  • 04/10/2012

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Tiger Reserves
    • Tourism
    • Supreme Court
    • Pachmarhi SA
    • Tiger
    • Wildlife Tourism
    • Wildlife
    • Madhya Pradesh

• Dy collector asks Tourism Dept to clean up tar balls

  MARGAO: With the tar ball menace continues to haunt Salcete

  • 18/09/2010

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Tourism Industry
    • Tourism
    • Toxic Wastes
    • Goa
    • Water Pollution
    • Oceans and Seas
    • Disaster Management

• Government mulls forming zonal tourism authorities

  GANDHINAGAR: Rattled by successive failures to create the required tourism infrastructure despite a sharp rise in tourist visiting Gujarat over the last few years, the state government is considering a

  • 28/09/2012

  • Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
  • • Tourism
    • Drinking Water
    • Land Acquisition
    • Kuchchh
    • Gir SA
    • Habitat And Urbanisation
    • Gujarat

• Centre submits new guidelines on core areas of tiger reserves to SC

  Two months after the Supreme Court banned tourism in core areas of tiger reserves after relying on the existing guidelines, the Centre Wednesday submitted revised guidelines, permitting up to 20 per cent

  • 27/09/2012

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Tiger Reserves
    • Supreme Court
    • Tiger
    • Wildlife Tourism
    • Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)

• Tourism Minister okays Rs 100 crore for reconstruction

  Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi today sanctioned a special financial package of Rs 100 crore for restoration and reconstruction of the affected tourist facilities in Uttarakhand. This will be in addition

  • 27/06/2013

  • Tribune (New Delhi)
  • • Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
    • Tourism
    • Infrastructure Development

• Uttarakhand tourism industry will suffer Rs 12K cr loss: Survey

  The devastation caused by torrential rains that lashed Uttarakhand earlier this month is expected to cause a loss of Rs 12,000 crore to the state's tourism industry in the current fiscal, says a PHDCCI

  • 26/06/2013

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • Natural Disasters
    • Floods
    • Tourism Industry
    • GDP
    • Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)

• Global Economic Prospects (June 2020)

  <p>The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is dealing a severe blow to the global economy. Measures needed to protect public health have undercut an already fragile global economy, causing deep recessions

  • 01/06/2020

  • The World Bank
  • • Global
    • Coronavirus
    • Economy
    • Economic Relations

• A tiger in the drawing room - Can luxury tourism benefit wildlife?

  With decisions like the Supreme Court's interim order banning tourism inside tiger sanctuaries becoming inevitable in the face of increasing political and executive resistance to expansion of protected

  • 22/09/2012

  • Economic and Political Weekly
  • • Wildlife Tourism
    • Tiger Conservation
    • Supreme Court
    • Sunita Narain
    • Benefit Sharing
    • Tiger Reserves
    • Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
    • National Tiger Conservation Authority
    • India
    • Wildlife Management
    • Coexistence Strategies

• Uganda gives green light to oil works in Virunga

  It is oil versus gorillas. Oil is a precious extractive buried under the landscape where the Mountain gorillas stay. Mountain gorillas are referred to as endangered species, meaning that if nothing

  • 08/02/2017

  • New Vision (Uganda)
  • • Environment
    • Oil Pollution
    • Wildlife
    • Uganda
    • Energy
    • Endangered Species
    • Tourism
    • Compensation
    • Africa

• Two Hundred Thirty Ninth Report of the Committee on the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2016

  The Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture submitted its report on the Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill, 2016 on February 8, 2017. The Bill amends the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and was

  • 08/02/2017

  • Rajya Sabha Secretariat
  • • Road Transport
    • Public Transport
    • Traffic Accidents
    • India
    • Legislation
    • Vehicles
    • Parliament
    • Motor Vehicle Act 1988

• Travel operators slam order

  While wildlife activists have generally welcomed the Supreme Court Order banning wildlife tourism in core areas, the Travel Operators for Tigers (TOFT) has called the decision a “fundamentally retrograde

  • 25/07/2012

  • Tribune (New Delhi)
  • • Tourism
    • Wildlife Tourism
    • Tiger Reserves
    • India
    • Supreme Court
    • Tiger
    • National Tiger Conservation Authority
    • Project Tiger