Appraisal of Munroe Island in Perspective of Tourism Development

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.