IMPACT OF TOURISTS IN ECOTOURISM TOWARDS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SELECTED DESTINATIONS AT TAMIL NADU

Abstract

The various kind of tourism available in the world especially ecotourism has played very vital role for environment concise around the tourism sector.The main objective of this study is to find out expectation for ecotourists towards environmental behavior in ecotourismand to analysis tourists expectation and satisfaction regarding with infrastructure facility inecotourism destination. This study has adopted questionnaire survey by personal interviews with 666 tourists through convenientsampling technique.The results of the study show thattourists were highly satisfied with environmental behavior in around ecotourism destination. This study has concluded that they are satisfied withinfrastructure facility inecotourism destination. However, ecotourism fails to meettourist’s expectation in some infrastructure facilities related variables. Hence, the concern responsible authorities must take necessary actions to fill their expectation in infrastructure facility inecotourism destination.