Challenges of Hinterland Tourism


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If you're looking for a getaway from the city that never sleeps, India's Goa is the place for you.

But if you're looking for a getaway from the city that never sleeps, Goa is the place for you.

About 8.4 million tourists visited the state in 2015, and tourism is expected to rise to 10 million visitors this year, the Times of India reports.

That's enough to create "a strain on the state's resources and has detrimental effects," writes an expert at Goa Business School.

"What do we, therefore, see in Goa? Mass tourism, destruction of ecology, concrete jungle, hustlers and vendors everywhere, real estate prices no local entrepreneur can afford, and thus, the massive quantum of money flowing from outside with hardly a sign of local culture and cuisine left," he writes.

That's because, as the Times notes, "some popular destinations have faded into oblivion due to mismanagement and mass overtourism like Spain's caves of Altamira, Maya Bay in Thailand or Boracay in the Philippines."

But Goa isn't the only place in India seeing a boom in hinterland tourism.

Called "go to nature" tourism, it's "driven by passionate entrepreneurs who have a goal in their life and are not willing

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