In a first, the Forest department is all set to establish an ecotourism directorate to brand its various programmes and pitch them at global platforms.
A senior forest department official told The Hindu that the department operates 200 ecotourism programmes across 73 destinations in the State. “It is high time to form an eco-tourism directorate to streamline and manage the programmes, while upgrading them to global standards,” said the official.
“The new directorate will conduct carrying capacity studies for each ecotourism destination, and prepare advertisements to attract tourists,” said the official.
