Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Ecotourism

Ecotourism
Ecotourism is defined as conscientious tour to natural regions which preserves environment and also sustains the interests of local community. At times it is also defined as a sustainable tourism sub-group or a subdivision of the bigger nature tourism industry. It comprises a learning/ interpretation experience that is conveyed to small groupings of tourist by small-size businesses, and emphasizes local community ownership, mainly for rural community. (Drake, 1991)

Heather Robinson (2006) defines Ecotourism as a division of sustainable tourism which differs with other divisions through its focusing on the ecology. Ecotourism is seen as sustainable tourism which makes contributions to the conservation and protection of natural as well as cultural inheritance of the local community; this is achieved through involving the local and native communities in planning, operation, development of the ecotourism activities to make a contribution to the local community welfare;

In other words ecotourism implies whereas practicing any sort of tourism category, individual must not damage nature in any way. For today's rapid changing world and increasing tourism, ecotourism provides an effective ways through which individuals can protect nature from adverse effects of rapidly growing industry, which is creating a very polluting environment, by respecting Natural world and its rules, thus it is anticipated that the ecosystem can then be maintained, permitting future tourism with no natural resources being worn out as rapidly. (Drake, 1991)

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