• Shweta Kapure
• Dr. Malini Singh
• Dr. Raj Kumar Gupta

This study aims at exploration of eco-tourism, which acts to promote economy, socio-cultural changes and life style of the people residing in and around the Dalma wildlife sanctuary and identifying the current status of eco-tourism and explore issues for eco-tourism being faced by the government at the sanctuary and review the marketing strategies for promoting eco-tourism, which in turn create a tremendous impact on local communities’ economy. Researcher has observed that, eco-tourism in the sanctuary has improved from past few years; government has also improved its civic amenities like communication, sanitation, transportation facilities and standard of living for the local community. For having leverage on eco-tourism potential, it is necessary for the sanctuary, not only to promote them but also analyze the needs, perceptions, preference and satisfaction of the tourist. This paper emphasizes on the concept, different issues and challenges related to eco-tourism as well as marketing strategies for the development of the sanctuary. Researcher also giving some suggestion to solve the problems related to ecotourism development in the respective sanctuary in sustainable manner which can explore newer avenues in relation to nature and open up its unexplored areas.

Tourism, Eco-tourism, Trends and Issues, Marketing strategies, Dalma wildlife sanctuary.

"TRENDS AND ISSUES FOR ECO-TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY ON DALMA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, JHARKHAND, INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.199-207, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCH06021.pdf

"TRENDS AND ISSUES FOR ECO-TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY ON DALMA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, JHARKHAND, INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp199-207, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCH06021.pdf