Tourism caused jeopardize of biodiversity: a case study on Mandermoni –Dadanpatrabarh coastal tourist destination in Purba Medinipur district, West Bengal, India

Pijush Kanti Dandapath; Gonne Oraon; Sumitra Rani Jana

Pijush Kanti Dandapath Department of Geography, Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal, India and Research Scholar, Ranchi University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Gonne Oraon Assistant Professor of Geography, KCB College, Bero, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Sumitra Rani Jana Guest Teacher, Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India

Keywords: Biodiversity, coastal tract, socio-cultural landscape, tourism, urbanization

Abstract

The present study is conducted to correlate among tourism and biodiversity, environment , physical and socio-cultural landscape. Tourism is now a major contributor to foreign exchange, money earnings and provides employment to millions directly and indirectly. It acts as a vehicle for infrastructural development as a big way (changing land use pattern and occupational structure) while damaging the natural environmental landscape and socio-cultural landscape of a host country. Therefore the present study was undertaken to assess the tourism and natural environmental landscape such as biodiversity, ecology or environment. Furthermore, the concept of mutual relationship among tourism and biodiversity, ecology or environment, which indicates that conservation of biodiversity, ecology or environment is a recreational activity of human life. Therefore, there is an imperative need to correlate these aspects.

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