Eco friendly term is used prominently by the hotel owners and resorts who are more interested in protecting their surrounding locations along with providing quality service for the guests.

Tourism is a bread winner and economic backbone for many locations. With ever increasing tourist and the lack of concern to the area are making the tourist locations polluted with the waste. This affects the appeasing factor of the destinations and in turn affecting the financial inflow. Apart from the financial gain, the nature is getting polluted and making the place unlivable to the local people.

Indian eco friendly resorts are built and marketed on the grounds of the nature friendly services provided. These eco friendly resorts often also boasts about the recyclable products used in providing service that make less or no harm to the nature.

There are luxury accommodations, home stays, eco villages and nature resorts in this eco friendly category. Eco features of these hotels include conversion of waste into fuel, chemical free zone, vermin culture, organic farming etc. Eco friendly hotels are constructed using natural materials and often create jobs for the locals.

Plastic free environment is provided and no chemicals are used in cleaning or washing. Local vegetables are meats are used to cook meals for the guests and sometimes even composting eco toilets are used.

Nainital is spotted with lakes and is known as the Lake District of India. The Naini Lake which is the largest lake in Nainital, was once known for its beauty and purity. With growing tourism, the lake has been so badly polluted that the water could not be drunk directly. The lake being the sole provider of drinking water to Nainital, the local people found this very difficult. Government has worked on this issue and has provided facility to naturally purify the water.

The hotels in Nainital near lake have been part of the initiative to maintain its health. They do not allow their sewage water to go into the lake. The building materials are not deposited near the lake in order to prevent siltation. The sightseeing around the lake has been channelized and made in such a way that the natural fauna and flora are least disturbed by these activities.

The hotels which market themselves as eco friendly, does not use harsh chemicals in cleaning or washing which causes damage to local water bodies. Some eco hotels teat their sewage before letting into the nearby water bodies and some hotels generate their own electricity from wastes.

For the eco lovers, these resorts provide eco friendly facilities in their rooms – cotton covers, bio degradable interiors, natural food etc. One more major factor considered in these hotels is that they employ the local people to be their staff. The employment of the local people allows them to maintain healthy relationship with them and they understand the surroundings better than others.

Mother Nature has given us many gifts to cherish and live, it makes duty of every person on the earth to conserve her. The eco friendly tourism is a step towards protecting the Mother Nature and the initiatives taken by the hotels to save their surrounding gain them both in financial and ecological points.