Chapter 14: Circular Tourism: Redefining Infrastructure for Sustainable Experiences

Circular tourism highlights the environmental effects, preserving resources, and promoting ecological consciousness while enhancing sociocultural values and revenue generation. Circular tourism adheres to the 3Rs, that is, reduce, reuse, and recycle to protect natural and cultural resources. Systematic designing of natural and semi-natural areas within urban and tourist environments to improve resilience and sustainability. This study illustrates the integration of Green Infrastructure in Circular Tourism and Indian case studies on green infrastructure development projects and initiatives including Majuli, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Jaipur, Chandigarh, etc., in line with circular tourism and enhancing urban liveability, biodiversity, and pollution control. Lastly, the chapter highlights the effective implementation of green infrastructure and circular tourism can significantly advance sustainable tourism, offering economic, ecological, and social benefits while guaranteeing the natural and cultural conservation of resources for future generations.