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Tourism is the fastest growing and the second largest industry of the world and has tremendous potentials for earning foreign exchange, yielding tax revenues, providing employment, promoting the growth of auxiliary industries and development of industrially backward regions. Tourists bring wealth into a country in the form of goodwill and understanding, in the form of foreign exchange, and in the form of financing for future tourism infrastructure and other economic development. The history of tourism clearly indicates that the environment of places has contributed to the birth and progress of tourism. Scenic sites, amenable climates and unique landscape features have had an important influence upon the patronage of specific localities, regions or countries. The environment of the host region exerts an attraction so that the tourists visit the place. Many nations have established their tourism sector around their natural wildlife. India is home to many national parks and wildlife sanctuaries showing the diversity of its wildlife, much of its unique fauna, and excels in the range. The present study attempts to analyze the role of wildlife sanctuaries in Tamil Nadu.