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Ecotourism. TARGETS: Define ecotourism. Explain its aims. Evaluate its successes through a case study. Ecotourism?. “An economic process by which rare and beautiful ecosystems and cultural attractions are marketed internationally to attract tourists”. How does this contradict the model?.
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Ecotourism TARGETS: Define ecotourism. Explain its aims. Evaluate its successes through a case study.
“An economic process by which rare and beautiful ecosystems and cultural attractions are marketed internationally to attract tourists” How does this contradict the model?
Aims of ecotourism • Aims to build responsible tourism by managing capacity. • Encourages conservation, through the education of both local people and tourists. • Develops a focus on the environment by solving environmental problems and exporting ideas all around the world.
1990 A group of tourists came to stay with a local family and paid for their hospitality...
Keeping it sustainable... Rank their importance: Most important... Grade A – Why?? Least important...
Visitors from the USA and Canada are usually committed environmentalists. • They travel by canoe and have a 2 hour hike to their destination. • Includes walks through the jungle. • Visit community projects. • Quicha are expert guides and train their children, via an ecological training programme. • Money from the tourism has led to major improvements to the services of the village.