‘Lakshadweep ecologically fragile’: MP says as island sees tourist interest, calls for ‘controlled way of tourism’

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Lakshadweep and his call to visit the island, the surge to visit the island has grown among the tourists. However, local MP Mohammad Faizal Padippura in an interview with NDTV has said that the amount of tourists must be managed due to the island's delicate environment and said that Lakshadweep is “very sensitive and ecologically very fragile." that has been propped up by a rulebook that lays down the number of tourists the islands can contain each day. He said, “You cannot imagine Juhu beach or a Goa type of tourism in Lakshadweep.

" He rather told NDTV that the tourist inflow they envisage is a ‘controlled way of tourism.’ “We have declared a carrying capacity for any person to come here, how many tourists can be accommodated in a day. Secondly, the tourists who are coming to Lakshadweep have to give their consent towards our environment," he told NDTV. As a result, an "integrated Island management plan" has been developed by the Supreme Court-appointed Justice Ravindran Commission.

“This IIMP is a broader outline or a ‘Bible’ for for development of tourism, constructing buildings, roads, jetties, headquarters," he told NDTV. He further added, that the commission's "widely accepted" plan also indicates the carrying capacity of the island maximum number of visitors it can accommodate. “We want tourism to develop and we are looking for tourism destination as a high-end low volume tourism," he said as quoted by NDTV.