India, Aug. 27 -- The challenge is no longer simply to draw tourists to India's shores, but to ensure that tourism does not destroy the very coastline that attracts them. If India's coastal tourism is to grow sustainably, Goa's experience with carrying capacity, conservation, and ensuring that local communities share the gains offers valuable lessons for the rest of the country

India has one of the world's longest coastlines, and until recently, one of its least precisely measured. When the coast was remapped in 2024, it grew from 7,516 km to over 11,000 km - not because any land was added, but because finer, modern mapping captured the bays, inlets and offshore islands that older, smaller-scale charts had smoothed over. It was a quiet r...