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Alpine Tour Service

Director: Sanjay Barnela
India (2005)
Audio: English
Subtitles: Japanese
36 min.
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Tourism is a booming industry across the world. It provides employment
opportunities and fills the national coffers but on the flipside the bane is evident.
Environment degradation, garbage disposal, lack of basic amenities and
haphazard construction have become a major threat to many regions. As
awareness spreads, nations all over the world are becoming sensitized towards
developing an eco-friendly approach to tourism.

Leave Nothing but Footprints is a bold attempt to study the contrast between
mainstream tourism and eco-tourism. It travels across Ladakh, Uttaranchal,
Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim and captures the ill effects of popular tourism.
On the other hand, it also portrays several eco-friendly alternatives in the areas,
which do not only create employment opportunities for the locals but also provide
tourists an insight into local culture and traditions.

(ENVIRONMENT)
* Meltdown
* Leave Nothing but Footprints
* Turf Wars
* Timber to Tibet
(ADVENTURE)
* Riding Solo To The Top Of The
World
* A Higher Calling
* Into the Thunder Dragon
* Farther than the Eye Can See
* Trio for One
* Fatal Game
(POLITICS / HUMAN RIGHTS)
* Thin ice
* Chulo, Choli ra Banduk - a stove,
a blouse and a gun
* Better to Have Been Killed
* The Forbidden Team
* Jashn-e-azadhi (How We
Celebrate Freedom)
* Siachen: A war for Ice
* Tibetan Refugees: A Struggle
Beyond Generations
(POVERTY & DEVELOPMENT)
* Journey of a Red Fridge
* Hami kunako maanche –
We corner people
* A Bridge over the Himalayas
* Yi khel gi kawa
(The Price of a Letter)
* Tingvong: a Lepcha village in
Sikkim
(CULTURE)
* Angry Monk
* Miss Tibet
* Closer than Tibet
* Bhedako Oon Jasto...in search
of a song...

* A man called nomad
* Call it Karma
* Daughters of Wisdom
* Bhutan - Taking the Middle Path
to Happiness

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