Ecotourism: A Panacea towards the Sustaining Biodiversity-A Case Study on Major Tourist Destinations of Coastal Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India

Over the year Tourism cropped up to be a revolutionizing phenomenon and it is emerging as a catalyst of the development process by promotes employment opportunities and augments foreign exchange of a country. But, if the development of tourism industry is not properly planned and managed, tourism itself produces a myriad of negative effects include the every tourist destination. Coastal tract of Purba Medinipur is an attractive combination of sea and land where the casuarinas and mangrove forest are whispering, sea are roaring, the flora and fauna are blooming and where visitors can rejuvenate yourself in the company of Sea, Sand and Sun in the pristine open air. But the feature is seen that the coastal tract attract a large number of tourist each year. So greater pressure of population inevitably puts more pressure on environment which has led to the deterioration in environmental quality and also put detrimental effect on coastal biodiversity in Purba Medinipur.