Author: Freeda
Kovilar Dam ETMC (Ecotourism Management Committee), a failed entity…
Located 32 km from Srivilliputhur town, 15 km from Watrap Town and 76 km from Madurai, the Kovilar dam is located in Virudhunagar district. The dam site of Kovilar located inside the Srivilliputtur Wildlife Sanctuary is known for sightings of elephants in the morning and evening, which happens because of the presence of the...
Penning Down Some Thoughts On Sustainable Tourism
Leave your comments below! Freeda There is a buzzword that is making headlines and sweeping the minds of the present breed of thoughtful travelers, “Sustainable travel”. What does it mean for us to be this way and how do we go about doing it all right? THE IDEA IS NEW, SO MANY THINGS GO INTO …...
Pondy Beyond The French Town! Through The Lens Of A Sandy Eco Village
Little did I know that there can be a place, a quarter, a micro village so quietly tucked away amidst the chaos of a very thickly populated Pondy (Pondicherry/Puducherry) as we call it? My travels and musings are direct from the realm of my experience of the place, something very personal, something that is mine. …...
Wild By Nature, A Book Review
Chaoji, the Biologist Imagine a person seeing a degrading forest and barren land, where not a blade of grass could grow; the carbon, the nitrogen required to cultivate had all but vanished. The person says, let me retrieve the lost splendor and bring back the biodiversity that once housed the area. The person of interest …...
Blue Flag Beaches: An Inclusive Approach To Conservation And Tourism
Wanderlusting In Coastal Karnataka: This article contains a researched write up on Blue Flag Beaches with India Approach, my visit to one blue flag beach in Coastal Karnataka and a special feature on Scuba Diving (Kapu Beach) and Surfing (Tannirbhavi Beach). It is highly recommended that a discerning traveler to the West Coast, gifts...
Decoding Sustainability, The GSTC Way
Through this article we wish to delve into Decoding Sustainability, and understand the importance of adopting the GSTC criteria. It is an attempt to enable the reader, who could be a traveller, a tourism business (the industry), a tourism Board or a DMO (Destination Management Organization), to look at Sustainability as the way forward,...
Post Covid-19: Revenge Tourism And Staycations, An Opportunity For Online Travel Agencies (OTA)
Image Source URL: https://citizenmatters.in/summer-overtourism-environment-damage-in-shimla-manali-rohtang-pass-13266 This piece was written to make the readers aware of what happened to their favourite holiday booking sites? How did they cope during these unprecedented times? So going about talking to the employees and reading...
Design Thinking, Did It Work With The Forest-Fringe Communities?
Application of The Design Thinking Framework to a study that was conducted in Maharashtra and Karnataka can help understand the applied research, in solving community problems. Read on to delve into two real life Case Studies. Straight from the Forest of India! Happy Reading! Freeda Design Thinking (DT) has been the buzzword in the...
Coffee, culture, cuisine and the Sahyadris – Sakleshpur, a surprise!
The Sahyadris, of the Gondwana land, is known famously as the Western Ghats. Stretching its might of, valleys and ravines, forests and peaks, rivers and waterfalls, is older than the puissant Himalayas. And in these ranges lay tucked, within vastly coffee plantations in the beautiful And a reticent – Sakleshpur. The Switzerland of...
The eyes tell a million bodies! The “Naav wala” Of Manikarnika Ghat (Banaras)
Picture: The burning Ghat, view from my Boat! My heartfelt thwacked, with ceaseless fear, the beats were fast-paced and I could feel a cold ….. there were profuse sweating and effervescence of emotions, running down my veins. The chants seemed to come closer, and my views becoming clearer, the bodies lain dead, being brought one...
