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Very recently tourism promoters have evolved tour packages that help people to get a feel of the lifestyles of the native people living in different parts of the country. For the people of Munnar, the situation is more complex, primarily because this kind of eco-tourism, they are in a position to market, involves farming and involvement in the livelihoods of the common people as **ll as visits to nature parks and studying rare animals and plants at close quarters. The research team is still working to establish as to how best to enable these people to benefit from their proximity to one of Kerala’s highly prized but sometimes locally resented, national parks. When considering the developments in various destinations Kerala state forest department has enforced many restrictions on visits to national parks and game sanctuaries.

Ho**ver, the concept of development can also have many other parameters namely,

• Development as a process of economic growth, can be defined by increased commodity output, creation of more **alth and a rise in the levels of employment
• Development as a process of socio-economic transformation in which economic growth triggers wider processes of change that alters the relationships bet**en locations (particularly bet**en developed and underdeveloped places) and bet**en socio-economic groups – thereby creating fundamental shifts in patterns of production and consumption
• Development as a process of spatial reorganization of people and areas of production. This may be vie**d as a visible product of socio-economic transformations and is a common adjunct of tourism development, with its propensity to focus attention upon resources and resource areas that may previously have been idle or used sparingly

In geography, development studies traditionally tend to explore the particular problems of less developed states and their relationships with the developed world. Part of this tradition was also transferred to the geographic study of tourism, but it is important to note that the tourism development processes are also highly significant in states that would already be described as ‘developed’.