• Reduces environmental impacts through the use of benchmarks
• Improves contributions to local community sustainable development
• Requires smallest possible use of non-renewable resources
• Sustains the welfare of local community
• Emphasizes local community ownership
• Supports attempts to conserve and protect the environment
• Makes a Contribution to the biodiversity
Analysing ecotourism
However, McHarry and Gardiner (2002) states that, a lot of eco-tourism arguments regarding its benefits seem to be exaggerated, or are indebted a lot to the labelling and also marketing of ecotourism than actual sustainability. In many cases it has been observed that many of ecotourism projects are continually planned and implemented without local community approval and their support, yet these projects frequently threaten the local social aspects and cultures, their economies, and the natural resource base. McHarry and Gardiner (2002) regard ecotourism as an “eco-façade”: an approach covering up the conventional tourism industry's exploitative and consumptive practices through “greening” it.
Of specific apprehension is the circumventing of critical questions regarding the promoting of ecotourism, concerning global economy, important political and social issues for example the misdistribution of resources; inequalities within political representation as well as power; and the increase of unsustainable utilization patterns are either ignored or marginalised.
Shackley (1998) observes that diverse social and also economic activities of the local community are substituted by ecotourism monoculture in a locality. Contrary to arguments that the local community benefits, the local community do not essentially benefit from the ecotourism activities, Tourism- interrelated employment opportunities is very much overrated. Locals are normally left to do low-paying jobs for example porters, tour guides and souvenir vendors or food vendors. More so, the locals are not guaranteed of full-year employment since they might be out of a job during the off-peak season. A large amount of money, just like in conventional tourism, goes to foreign airlines operators, the tourism operators and private developers and not the local community.
• Improves contributions to local community sustainable development
• Requires smallest possible use of non-renewable resources
• Sustains the welfare of local community
• Emphasizes local community ownership
• Supports attempts to conserve and protect the environment
• Makes a Contribution to the biodiversity
Analysing ecotourism
However, McHarry and Gardiner (2002) states that, a lot of eco-tourism arguments regarding its benefits seem to be exaggerated, or are indebted a lot to the labelling and also marketing of ecotourism than actual sustainability. In many cases it has been observed that many of ecotourism projects are continually planned and implemented without local community approval and their support, yet these projects frequently threaten the local social aspects and cultures, their economies, and the natural resource base. McHarry and Gardiner (2002) regard ecotourism as an “eco-façade”: an approach covering up the conventional tourism industry's exploitative and consumptive practices through “greening” it.
Of specific apprehension is the circumventing of critical questions regarding the promoting of ecotourism, concerning global economy, important political and social issues for example the misdistribution of resources; inequalities within political representation as well as power; and the increase of unsustainable utilization patterns are either ignored or marginalised.
Shackley (1998) observes that diverse social and also economic activities of the local community are substituted by ecotourism monoculture in a locality. Contrary to arguments that the local community benefits, the local community do not essentially benefit from the ecotourism activities, Tourism- interrelated employment opportunities is very much overrated. Locals are normally left to do low-paying jobs for example porters, tour guides and souvenir vendors or food vendors. More so, the locals are not guaranteed of full-year employment since they might be out of a job during the off-peak season. A large amount of money, just like in conventional tourism, goes to foreign airlines operators, the tourism operators and private developers and not the local community.
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