The report is documented in the context of Sustainable Indian Tourism. Major areas related to Sustainable Indian tourism are discussed in the following report with support of different pieces of evidence. The thesis statement of the report specifies the current and future state of sustainable tourism in India. The report is divided into different sections among which, the first section holds the discussion based on- “what does it mean? In the context of the UNWTO’s priorities above, relate this to your own country’s Tourism Industry”, “Are sustainable and responsible tourism the same? Give relevant examples to identify and demonstrate the differences.”, “What are the sustainable tourism global trends and cite an example(s) from your home country?”, “What are the sustainable tourism global challenges and cite examples from your home country?”. To make a better investigation case study analysis and research-based analysis has been made under the report that helps in the effective identification of several pieces of evidence in context to identified issues.

Sustainable Tourism
What does it mean? In the context of the UNWTO’s priorities above, relate this to your own country’s Tourism Industry.
Today, tourism is one of world’s fastest-growing industries and also a major source of income for various countries. This is a people-oriented industry so this industry also offers various jobs that further helped revitalize local economies. Sustainable tourism is one of the concepts of visiting somewhere as a tourist and then trying to make a positive impact on the environment, the economy as well as society(Sharma and Parkash, 2018). It has been investigated that without travel there is no tourism so, sustainable tourism is tightly linked to one of the concepts of sustainable mobility. Thus, sustainable tourism is one of the ways of travelling as well as exploring a destination at a similar time of respecting its environment, culture, and people(H.Lalnunmawia, 2019).

UNWTO is stated as the World Tourism Organization that is further a United Nations Specialized Agency. This agency is responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable as well as universally accessible tourism. This is one of the international organizations in the field of tourism that promotes tourism as one of the key drivers of economic growth, inclusive development & environmental sustainability to offer better leaders(Sharma and Parkash, 2018).

3.1.1 Environmental resources and its impact on Indian Tourism Industry
The tourism industry in India has several positive as well as the negative impact on the environment which are discussed below-

Positive impact-

Sound environmental management of tourism facilities and especially hotels can increase the benefits to natural environment. The development of tourism industry has moved Indian government towards the direction that lead towards the significant improvement in environmental management. With early planning for tourism development, expensive mistakes and damages could be prevented together with avoidance of gradual deterioration of environmental assetsthose are significant to Indian tourism(Sharma and Parkash, 2018). The Indian tourism has the potential to increase public appreciation of the environment and even to spread awareness of environmental issues when it brings into closer contact with environment and nature.