World Tourism Day: COVID -19 an opportunity to rethink Himalayan tourism

This September 27, it is time to turn the pandemic into an opportunity by looking at tourism in a different light and redesigning the current …

More than 100,000 tourists will head to Antarctica this summer. Should we worry about damage to the ice and its ecosystems?

Visits are concentrated in highly sensitive ecological areas for only a few months per year

At loggers' heads

In Hobart, Australia, environmentalists are determined to continue throughout the summer tourist season a campaign to highlight the threat -- by …

An offer Khaleda Zia can't reject

Uttarakhand’s plans to create 100,000 ‘ecopreneurs’ raises hope and questions

Some experts have questioned the approach as well as the ambitious target number of trainees, which equates to around one per cent of the state&…

African tourism surging, but challenges remain

Security concerns, poaching are undermining efforts to promote tourism in the continent

Peripheries: new destinations for vacations

Poverty is not to be relished as a visual prop, or an object of aesthetic appeasement—immunising us to “a new normal” of …

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History on two wheels

Phoney dance

Paradise lost

3,500 captive elephants are used to entertain tourists in India: Study

Report focuses on situation of captive elephants across Asia, including India

Showcasing nature

Thailand's sorrow

Swamped by a surge in tourist population, Thailand has but to turn towards alternative tourism

What ails these hill-stations?

Unwanted guests

Rural holiday

Tourists are treated as guests in a small Sikkimese village

Supreme Court lifts ban on tiger tourism

Directs states to prepare tiger conservation plans in six months

International agencies launch sustainable tourism programme

Programme to focus on resource efficiency, conservation and new technologies

Asia pacific sets out to create next-generation tourism industry

Members will work together to boost innovation and promote digital technologies in the tourism sector

Sandakhpu trek: attempt at saving the Himalayas

The trekking community should come together and establish a sort of trust and social enterprise to save the fragile environment of the mountains

Farmers flay golf greens

Tourism concerns

A junkyard in the sky

An average trekker uses as much firewood in a day as an average Nepali family would in a week.

Supreme Court bans tourism in core tiger habitats

Court slaps fine of Rs 10,000 each on states that have not notified buffer zone around tiger reserves even after the deadline for it was extended …