The pattern and impacts consequent upon tourism development in coastal settings, one of the most enduring human aspects of modern times, is rather intriguing. In many ways, it exemplifies the most manifestive aspect of tourism development since 1960s. In India, hosting the sun-sea-sand drifters of Western origin has history of over six decades and in course many patches of its long coast has been transformed into virtual paradise for holiday-makers! Equally interesting has been tourisms evolution as powerful agent of change, largely organic and bereft of meaningful State and/or corporate...