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Ecotourism and development (Stephen J Page and …

- - - - Origins
        
        Eco tourism is often claimed to be the most rapidly expanding sector in the tourism industry.(p6)
        
        'Eco tourism includes the minimisation of environmental and cultural consequences , contribution to conservation and community projects in developing countries and environmental education ' (p6)
        
        Conservation tourism
        
        Most ecotourism involves visits to areas that are under some form of environmental protection by govt , conservation, or scientific organisations, or private owners or entrepreneurs. (p11)
        
        How to know eco tourism if you see it
        
        involves natural destination , minimises environmental impact, builds environmental awareness, provides direct financial benefit for conservation , provides financial benefits and empowerment for local people, respects local culture, supports human rights and democratic movements.(p24)
        
        Nature tourism vs Eco-tourism .Nature tourism involves travel to unsoiled places to experience and enjoy nature.(p6)
        
        ' the increasing number of people to whom these formerly remote natural areas are now available has resulted in serious damage to some of the most popular destinations.'
        The grand canyon tourism has affected the ecosystem with negative damages (p10).
- - - - Sustainability means something is right when it tends to maintain the earths life support system for humans and other species and wrong (Miller 1994)(p5)
      - The greening of tourism - shows the indivual and collective power of individual tourists
      - Hawkins 1994 suggested that the major factors contributing to the boom of ecotourism included an international awareness of global ecological realities, the desires among a rapidly growing and relatively affluent segments of the industrialised world tourists to have nature based experiences and the development of the worlds conviction that natural resources are finite and must be conserved for future generations
  - - - use the ethnocentric paradigm to understand how individuals can minimise their environmental effects.