 Objectives
for developing eco projects
1. Development of a special tourism zone in
the project area through a multiple stakeholder mechanism.
2. Setting up of various tourist facilities
like tent resorts, ethnic cottages, treetop huts, nature interpretation-cum-eco
parks, watchtowers and adventure sports centers at strategic
locations inside the tourism zone.
3. Identifying community level stakeholders
at each site and develop managerial capabilities of such stakeholders
so that mechanisms of decentralized community level management
can be evolved.
 4.
Generating and increasing income levels of community members
through revenue sharing and creation of employment opportunities.
5. Promoting indigenous culture including
traditional handicrafts within the tourism zone and establishing
necessary marketing mechanisms.
6. Starting various tourism activities at
each site and facility and designing such activities in a way
so that they do not harm the environment.
7. Marketing the tourism zone at home and
abroad as a conservation programme and making the project commercially
viable.
8. To protect and conserve the forests and
other natural resources within the project area through the
community level stakeholders as well as creating environmental
awareness among tourists using facilities within the area.
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