Thenmala in Kollam district of Kerala will have the first national butterfly park. The project of the park will be implemented by the Kerala Forest Research Institute and the ecotourism department.

Tourism stakeholders in Zambia's tourist capital of Livingstone, the departure point for the world famous Victoria Falls, are expressing concern over what they call "bureaucratic confusion' of the

The United Nations has announced a new biosphere reserve in Brazil's Pantanal region, the largest tropical wetland ecosystem in the world. The country's biologists are hoping that Pantanal's new

Fisherfolk on the coast of Saurashtra kill whale sharks to make a living. If this is replaced by an ecotourism scheme the people and the fish would both be better off

Goa s army fights drugs, AIDS, nudism and the various other ills of tourism that threaten to snuff out the local traditional lifestyle

A South Korean firm will invest us $10 million on a fleet of 300 electric cars that will ferry tourists around Cambodia's sprawling Angkor Vat temple complex, a tourism ministry official said

T ourist attractions in China will now be classified according to hygiene, communications, safety and

The CSD urges governments to take up sustainable tourism development


sight-seeing boats are threatening

The volatile political climate seems to have no effect on eco-tourism which is flourishing in Sri Lanka, famous for its beaches. In what has come to be termed as the new age of eco-tourism, the

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