DEAR SIR,
I AGREE TO THIS THAT THE SMALL TIME LOCALS
DONOT BENIFIT FROM TOURISM IN INDIA BUT THER BIG
MONEYLORDS, AS IS THE CASE IN HIMACHAL ALSO. BUT FOR
THIS THE FAULTY GOVERNMENT POLICIES ARE TO BE BLAMED
AND NOT THE TOURISM.
THANKS.
DR. OMESH BHYARTI, SHIMLA




--- "S.K.Tiwari" <kaysat@...> wrote:

> Dear Friends
> Here I am adding some more information in connection
> with the letter of
> Chandna Rao.
> I am Satyendra Kumar Tiwari and I live in village
> Tala which is situated on
> outskirts of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve. In fact Tala
> is main entry gate for
> tourist. I work as Free lance Naturalist/Tour
> Leader/wildlife photographer
> and runs a small lodge here. My experience with
> tourism is that elite
> tourism do not help local economy. In elite Tourism
> locals get menial jobs
> which is very minor negligible share of tourism. I
> ask my clients to use
> small lodges run by local people so the moneygoes in
> local economy and they
> are more for local environment. Take the example of
> Sariska. When Tiger
> started went missing Tourist guides and drivers must
> be the first person to
> notice this change. But unfortunatelty they never
> broke this news neither
> they talk loud enough to forest department to react
> on. Or take the example
> of Ranthambhore people do not talk about National
> Park openly. When I ask
> one lodge owner to complaint about route system he
> says we have to run the
> business. So with that mentality how one can save
> the local environment. It
> is only the locals who will say that if we loose our
> environment than we
> loose our livelihood.
> Same thing should be for A & N If no Jarawas no
> tourism. So all the
> deveopment for tourism industry should be according
> to the need of locals. I
> say the tourist who want a five star facility and
> continental food in A&N
> better he stay at home. I would like to know if
> people are agree or disagree
> with this thought especially Chandana Rao.
> Satyendra K Tiwari
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: andamanicobar@...
> [mailto:andamanicobar@...]On Behalf Of
> chandana rao
> Sent: 28 June 2005 21:53
> To: andamanicobar@...
> Subject: Re: [andamanicobar] Presidential recipe for
> island disaster
>
>
> Dear Pankaj,
>
> I am Chandana Rao, a Tourism lecturer. This is the
> first time I am writing
> in and it's been insightful reading so far.
>
> I actually struggle when I try to tell my students
> that unplanned and
> unsustainable tourism is no answer to a quick-buck
> sort of development. But
> I am badly lost when the syllabus that I am expected
> to teach specifies
> tourism potential of the A&N Islands and how to
> exploit it!
>
> I seem to recall that reading that tourists should
> be made to pay through
> their noses in order to aid development for the
> people of the islands. I
> have 2 queries actually:
> 1. If we have to look at tourism as the source of
> some sort of revenue or
> development, in simple terms, how is one expected to
> go about it? What
> should be kind if tourist 'infrastructure' (if at
> all) that must be present?
> 2. Should tourists be made to pay through their
> noses? Why? If someone
> cannot pay, should they they be made in-eligible to
> visit the islands?
>
> I must apologise if my queries sound a little
> off-track, but this is a
> dilemma that I do face when I try to explain to my
> peers and students alike
> advantages of balanced development as against rapid
> development of tourism
> "resources".
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Chandana
> Lecturer, Jyoti Nivas College
> Bangalore
>
>
> Pankaj <pankaj@...> wrote:
> Dear Dr. Bharti,
> you say that the Presidents vision means only 2740
> tourists per day in the
> islands and that we can afford this.
>
> You might be right - but I am still not clear what
> is the basis of you
> suggesting this, or what is the basis for the
> President suggesting this? Can
> you help by elaborating a bit.
>
>
> let me try and put forward some quick, back of the
> envelope figures in
> response to this.
>
> a) The tourist season in the islands is roughly six
> months from November to
> May. Few if any tourists will visit the islands in
> the monsoons as at
> present. So straight away the number that you
> suggest crosses 5000 people
> per day in the islands.
>
> b) Even if we take a conservative estimate that each
> person stays for
> atleast five days, it means an additional 25,000
> people per day in the
> islands. A large majority of these people will have
> to be in and around Port
> Blair for various reasons. The estimated population
> of Port Blair today is a
> little more than a lakh, and already like many have
> pointed out there is a
> serious drinking water problem in the city in the
> months of April and May.
>
> c) Do you think that any town or city has the
> capacity to deal an increase
> in its load by 25%. Water, infrastructure, sewage,
> waste, transport, fuel,
> hotels, construction....who will ensure all this
> happen first. Does anyone
> know how 5000 people will be brought into the
> islands every day, to begin
> with?
>
> These are fundamental questions I am asking to
> ensure that the tourists who
> might come have a good experience - that they have
> water to drink, that
> their sewage does not flow into the ocean where they
> might want to bathe on
> a holiday, that there are enough vehicles and boats
> for them to travel
> in.....
>
> I am not even talking of the impact on the fragile
> forests, beaches, and
> coral reefs that these islands are so famous for,
> and the extremely
> vulnerable and threatened indigenous communities who
> today stand on the
> brink of being wiped out from the surface of the
> earth.
>
> I am not even sure the President know's what he is
> talking about.
> And come to think of this, Dr. Bharti, this is being
> suggested and discussed
> at the same time when the islanders themselves are
> facing such serious
> problems in the aftermath of the tsunami.
>
> I am not saying that tourism should not happen.
> Nobody can deny that it
> could play an useful role in rebuilding some
> livelihoods, in creating an
> economy of sorts, but it there something called
> scale, a sense of
> proportion, or what might be the most appropriate
> thing in a appropriate
> context?
>
> These are far more important questions that need to
> asked and answered
> first, before we accept what the President or anyone
> else might say.
>
> thanks
> pankaj
>
>
> C/o Kalpavriksh
> Apt. 5, Sri Dutta Krupa
> 908 Deccan Gymkhana
> Pune - 411004
> Tel: 020 - 25654239/25675450. Fax; 25654239
> Email: pankajs@...; pankaj@...
>
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