Sustainable eco-tourism at Gulf of Mannar biodiversity

Oceanic areas are the intermediate areas between land and sea characterised by high biodiversity. Tourists can experience unspoiled nature and sceneries, high-quality environmental products, and services (clean air and water), a healthy community with a low crime rate, and a vibrant, taste of local culture and customs in this area. Ecotourism is developing and experiencing environmental, cultural understanding and conservation. It can generate income, employment, and contributions to business ventures. The main objective of ecotourism is to create experiences that are equally beneficial to all, not just tourism and stakeholders. At the same time, ecotourism helps to preserve their communities and culture. The study's goal is to create suggestions for long-term ecotourism growth. This might be done from observations of the assorted developments in coastal areas with eco-tourism concepts that are done round the world. The main objectives were to identify the present issues on this area with comparison of eco-tourism parameters and analyse eco-tourism development opportunities in this area. The study spotlights sustainable eco-tourism; it also reveals the link between biodiversity and the local people. The study is limited to a particular part of the Gulf of Mannar biodiversity, focusing more on nature tourism with less priority to adventure tourism and culture tourism.