These are Ecotourism and Sustainable tourism. Ecotourism is a form of tourism involving visiting fragile, pristine, and relatively undisturbed natural area intended as a low impact and often small scale alternative to standard commercial tourism. And Sustainable tourism is the concept of visiting place as a tourist and trying to make only a positive impact on the environmental, society, and
topic that contains mutli-sided point of views. Ecotourism, and the research taken will provide an answer to the question, “is ecotourism all that it has been made out to be?” in order to fully and accurately answer the question at hand the report will be divided into 8 separate factors of ecotourism. And I am very excited to see what eco-tourism is really about and if it really “is all that it is made out to be.” 1 . Definition of ecotourism. Ecotourism is the responsible travel to natural environmental
benefit the local communities. The term ecotourism was coined in 1983 by a Mexican environmentalist named Hector Ceballos Lascurain, and was initially used to describe nature based travel. In layman terms, Ecotourism is a form of tourism which is more oriented towards nature, learning and experiencing about the locale- its flora, fauna, landscape, as well as the culture of the people living in those areas. Experts have been divided over the potential of ecotourism to help achieve sustainability in tourism
large on Mount Kenya, amounting to about 20oC in January-February and about 12oC in July-August. The solution might be ecotourism activities implementation. Kenyan nature reserves have obtained actual effects in promoting sustainable development of ecotourism among local communities nearby Mount Kenya. Increasing community interest in a continuously participation is the key for ecotourism planning in Mount Kenya National Park. Global warming is seen as the main culprit. Others point to a natural decrease
Evaluation of the establishment of the Hong Kong Geopark in promoting environmental sustainability in Hong Kong and possible solutions to the park Introduction Hong Kong is not only a shopping paradise, but it is also a city that has many parks and nature reserves. In fact, about 70% of the land in Hong Kong is a green area (HKSAR, 1976). Apart from country parks, there are also eight geosites in Sai Kung and the Northeast New Territories. These officially became the Hong Kong Global Geopark in
In the case of Belum Rainforest Resort, the fact that it self-identifies as an ecotourism complex leaves little room to translate its main design intention. As with other eco-friendly architecture, the resort aims to integrate the structural and aesthetical values of architecture along with a sense of appreciation and care for the surrounding
According to Tribe article, “Tourism is not an old subject of research and activity in universities, but despite its relative youth, it has already generated substantial amounts of knowledge. For example Annals of Tourism Research has been producing articles since 1973. The number of specialist research journals stands at over 50 and a recent search of the CABI(Center for Agriculture and Biosciences International) abstract service revealed the existence of around 50,000 items (mainly articles but
2.2. CONCEPT OF BIODIVERSITY It has been estimated that more than 50 million species of plants, animals and micro-organisms are existing in the world. Out of these, about 1.4 million species have been identified so far. Each species is adapted to live in specific environment, from mountain peaks to the depth of seas, from polar ice caps to tropical rain forests and deserts. All this diversity of life is confined to only about one kilometre thick layer of lithosphere hydrosphere and atmosphere which