**14. Conclusion**

As the name suggests the destination Bhitarkanika is definitely having eternal beauty for which a large number of tourists are now visiting this destination every year. No doubt the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park is a paradise for all the wildlife lovers with its rich bio-diversity, but due to the lack of certain facilities and amenities, the flow of tourists to this spot is not so encouraging in comparison to its tourism resources. If the following points to be taken care of seriously like: facilitating the development of conservation measures both for flora and fauna inside the sanctuary, creation of more employment opportunities through tourism development inside the study area, use of local agricultural and household products including marketing of local handicrafts and souvenir to the tourists who are coming to visit the destination and encouragement of use local facilities like catering, transport, guides, fishing etc.

Then, the place can be very easily marketed as a perfect eco-tourism place of the state of Odisha. If the sanctuary is developed according to the biological and physical tolerance level by maintaining the carrying capacity, then a day will come when this sanctuary will become the main attraction for the tourists of National and International level of the global tourists' market. It is also worthy here to mention that in the year 2001, Bhitarkanika has been identified as the most unexplored eco-tourism destination of India. The scope for marketing Bhitarkanika as an eco-tourism destination is very high. What the destination presently needs is proper marketing, development of infrastructure, especially setting up of accommodation units inside the sanctuary, enhancing the conservation projects for better survival of endangered species, better promotion, maintaining the carrying capacity of the destination and above all planning for a better visitor management system with highest monitoring facilities will definitely make Bhitarkanika a world-class ecotourism destination in the state of Odisha.

*Development of Eco-Tourism Vis-à-Vis Conservation Measures for Protecting the Endangered… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.102502*
