Online published on 8 August, 2016.
With the globalisation and the present day demand for the tourism, it has become not only important but mandatory to adopt the sustainable tourism practices to maintain the resources for future generation. It would not be wrong to say that sustainable tourism practices help to make a positive impact on environment, society & economy. However people are not fully aware about the sustainable tourism. There should be an equal participation from the each and every human being who lives in society to maintain the tourism resources. Sustainability should be targeted in such a way that it could encourage the people to make them comfortable to adopt the sustainable tourism practices. Local people can play a vital role to maintain the destination & to restore the resources for future. Lack of local people participation, this is arduous to adopt sustainable tourism practices. On the other hand lack of knowledge about sustainability in the people makes it worse to maintain tourism resources for future generation. This study aims at maintaining the tourism resources, and to educate the local people in terms of tourism sustainability in Himachal Pradesh. Himachal Pradesh is one of the potential states of India in terms of tourism because of rich natural heritage, beauty and pilgrimage destinations. The need of the hour is to take onus to teach sustainability to the local community and devise such techniques to yield the better results.
