Sustainable Ecotourism of UNESCO Approved Biodiversity Reserve in India: Way towards Carbon Neutrality and Resource Productive Economy

Abstract

Concentration of intense economic processes and high level of consumption in tourism increase their resource demands. Tourism today is become centers of high concentration of carbon emission rather than recreation. The future of tourism economy, to be sustainable, will have to re-establish the concept of sustainable ecotourism towards carbon neutrality. Under the umbrella of UNESCO's MAB (Man and Biosphere, 1976) programmed in which Panchmarhi Sanctuary, Sapura National Park and Bori Sanctuary was notified on 3rd March 1999 as a Biosphere Reserve (BR). The Panchmarhi BR is located in Central Part of India. Presence of deep gorges, several waterfalls, lakes, marshy land, perennial streams, and hills of various elevations, rock painting and clean environment attracts more than one million tourists every year. Efficiency of land use, Management of Natural Resources and Conservation and Development of resources acts as modeling system for integration of social, economic and ecological integrity paradise towards low carbon tourism.