*Department of Hotel and Catering Management, Sathyabama University, Chennai – 600119
**Associate Professor & Head, Department of Hotel Mgt. & Catering Science, Madurai Kamaraj University College, Alagarkoil Road, Madurai
***Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Annamalai University, Chidambaram – 608002
Online published on 18 August, 2012.
Tourism promotion also generates employment in urban as well as rural areas, which may arrest the large scale migration of rural mass to urban centers and in turn help avoid formation of more slums. At present these wetlands and swamps, which are ecologically sensitive, are highly threatened. Quite often these wetlands are converted into dumping yard for garbage or polluted by sewage and other effluents. They are encroached and built up in several cases. In Tamil Nadu, mangrove ecosystem is also undergoing widespread degradation due to a combination of physical, biological, anthropogenic and soil factor.
