THE PROSPECT OF SUSTAINABLE ECOTOURISM IN 生态旅游的可持续发展.ppt

THE PROSPECT OF SUSTAINABLE ECOTOURISM IN 生态旅游的可持续发展
DEFINITION
Ecotourism: also known as ecological tourism. It is responsible travel to fragile pristine and usually protected areas that strives to be low impact and (often) small scale
The Australia commission on National Ecotourism strategy calls it: “nature based tourism that involves education and interpretation of the natural environmental and is managed to be ecologically sustainable”
Ecotourism is a sector of tourism, based on nature travel and including the principles of sustainability. The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) defines ecotourism as: “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the welfare of local people.”
ECOTOURISM +ve impact on both
natural areas Forest Ecosystem Protected PAs
Park Ecosystem Areas
Local communities

Indigenes
Livelihood
Nature tourism Non-ecotourism 50%
Cultural tourism 13%
Sustainable Tourism
City tourism 76%
Beach tourism 78%
Patterns of Eco-tourism
What is sustainable tourism?
The principles of sustainability can be applied to any type of tourism –
(WTO) declared in 1988 that sustainable tourism is "envisaged as leading to