The concept of a Responsible Traveller targets the behaviour of visitors to ensure that there are no adverse social, cultural and environmental impacts on the destination city.
Tourism industry has very consciously realized its negative impact and hence the new tourism policy has the over-arching goal of sustainable and responsible tourism. Sustainable tourism criteria for India have been developed which highlight the need for not only infrastructural adjustments but behavioural changes wherein both residents and visitors have a major role to play in sustainable waste management.
The concept of a Responsible Traveller targets the behaviour of visitors to ensure that there are no adverse social, cultural and environmental impacts on the destination city. This has been in India’s pipeline for almost a decade now but of late there has been a great deal of resolve within the sector to mainstream sustainability in tourism.
Keeping the above theme in mind, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH India (GIZ India) and Karo Sambhav have been working together under the development public private partnership framework of the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) on a waste management project being implemented in Varanasi, Goa and Ghaziabad with the objective of developing scalable, transparent, financially sustainable waste management systems as well as generating awareness amongst 100,000 stakeholders on the importance of recycling plastic and e-waste.
Recently at a webinar organized on the World Environment Day RK Verma, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Tourism emphasized, “Under Swadesh Darshan scheme, we are currently working in 400 destinations which have a component of Sustainable Waste Management in them and have successfully implemented said scheme least 100 monuments. Work is now being done to replicate it at a city level.”
(Source : TravelWorld.com)
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