Abstract:
Tourism can be defined as: “The activities of a person travelling outside his or her usual environment for a specified
period of time and whose main purpose of travel is other than exercise of an activity remunerated from the place visited”. The
present holistic ideas even redefines this as “Tourism was and essentially still is recreational travelling”. ((UNWTO), 2015). The
Ashtamudi backwaters lies in the second position in terms of tourism activity. The study tries to identify the tourism activity of
various locations alongside the backwater and promote the tourism potentials. The Munroe Islands has the most visitor inflow
among these locations and has a wide range of tourism products, owing to its peculiar geographical position at the confluence zone
of the Kallada River and the lake. The study aims at upbringing the tourism potential of Munroe Islands, ensuring host population
participation in the envisioning process. Primary study was conducted in the field to identify the status of tourism activities and
facilities and both visitor and host population surveys was conducted.
