Tourism development in Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh India
International Journal of Development Research
Tourism development in Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh India
Tourism is important. It covers many aspects of our society. Tourism is one of the most developing and promising of the present time. Indiscriminate use of tourism endangers the environment. To safeguard a place from overuse, various world organizations like World Tourism Organization (WTO), The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have come up with certain policies. The primary concerns of these international bodies are to help the member countries in establishing tourism carrying capacity, developing sustainable tourism practices and promoting the concept of eco-tourism. Visakhapatnam is famous for its natural harbour, Ship building unit, Steel plant, Oil refineries, Dolphin’s Nose Hills, and Ramakrishna beach. Rushikonda beach. It is also an industrial city in Andhra Pradesh.