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Coastal vegetation: Patterns in a tourist region

DOI:Coastal tourism, environment, and sustainable local development, eds. Noronha, L.; Lourenco, N.; Lobo-Ferreira, J.P.; Lleopart, A.; Feoli, E.; Sawkar, K.; Chachadi, A. 131-150p.
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ABSTRACT None of the coastal areas under study possess the rich sand dune flora characteristic of an undisturbed beach. The status of dune vegetation in tourism villages has been deteriorating as compared to that in the developing or non-tourist villages. Interactions with elders from the coastal area also reveal that a number of fruit-bearing trees, which were present 20 years ago, have now disappeared. Some isolated specimens are spotted in private compounds. Whereas tourists are attracted to Goa, India mainly due to its natural beauty, efforts to homogenize and produce 'similarity' in tourism destinations destroy the diversity of natural vegetation, with adverse long-term consequences for the industry and the region

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Keywords

adverse long-term consequences
 
coastal areas
 
fruit-bearing trees
 
India
 
isolated specimens
 
natural beauty
 
natural vegetation
 
non-tourist villages
 
private compounds
 
rich sand dune flora characteristic
 
tourism destinations
 
tourism villages
 
undisturbed beach
 

T.G. Jagtap