A senior eco-tourism industry official has said that the government’s recent policy to protected forests and tiger reserves should not be misconstrued as effecting a total ban on tourist footfall in the core zones. In a Assam Tribune report, Sujit Banerji, Chairman of the Forest, Environment and Eco-tourism Committee and India’s former Secretary, Tourism, had said: “The core areas should be kept as free from human disturbance as possible but it does not mean total closing down of tourism there.”The main thrust, of course, is on shifting the attention to the buffer areas and also to enhance the forest cover on the buffer by providing financial assistance to the local landholders.”Speaking at a seminar organised by the Tour Operators’ Association of Assam, he said there was widespread apprehension among tour operators in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling declaring the core areas of tiger reserves and protected areas as ‘inviolate’ to provide a disturbance-free environment to the tiger.Expressing concern over the unbridled growth of tourism close to wildlife habitats across the country, Banerji had said said that the ministry was working on a mechanism to check the undesirable growth of tourist facilities.”Places like Corbett Park and Kaziranga National Park are witnessing a mushrooming growth of tourist facilities which is not in consonance with long-term interests of both ecology and tourism,” he was quoted saying.Banerji had felt that too much emphasis was being paid on tiger-tourism whereas the need was to encourage a wholesome experience involving forests, its varied wildlife, and their overall ambience. “Making wildlife tourism tiger-centric will do more harm than good.”
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