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Published in Hemanta Doloi, Ray Green, Sally Donovan, Planning, Housing and Infrastructure for Smart Villages, 2018
Hemanta Doloi, Ray Green, Sally Donovan
Ecotourism is defined as responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people (Bluwstein, 2017, Mayett-Moreno et al., 2017). Further to this, many “ecotourists” express a desire to learn about and experience local traditions and customs as part of their overall travel experience. By incorporating cultural experiences into an ecotourism development project, the three pillars of sustainability can be adhered to: environmental conservation is achieved in a way that promotes economic development through job creation and increased income generating opportunities; social development is created through improved services and infrastructure, while preserving cultural traditions. However, the reality often falls short of the ideal. In this section we will look at each of the three pillars of sustainability separately and examine ways that ecotourism ventures can fail to achieve the ideal and discuss how they could be better implemented.
Objectives and categories of MPAs
Published in Peter J. S. Jones, Governing Marine Protected Areas, 2014
The development of coastal tourism in a given area tends to follow a general pattern, similar to that for the development of fish stocks, from discovery by incoming entrepreneurs to the rapid development of hotels, resorts, etc. and an influx of developers, often leading to the eventual degradation of the resource and a reduction in profits. This can also have significant social impacts, such as traditional communities and small-scale fishing livelihoods being displaced by the growth of tourism. Some local societal sectors may significantly benefit from such developments, particularly well-connected elites, but tourism industry workers tend to be trained and experienced incomers, limiting the potential benefits of tourism development to some marginalised local communities, who are often left with the low-paid menial jobs, if any. Large-scale tourism development is rarely driven by local communities, so many of the economic benefits tend to ‘leak’ away from locals to external developers, whilst the local economic benefits tend to be unevenly distributed. Ecotourism often includes measures to minimise the social impacts and maximise the economic benefits to all sectors of local communities, through employment, including training opportunities, as well as service and accommodation provision, but the effectiveness of such measures is often limited, even ‘ecotourism’ often being driven by incoming entrepreneurs, leading to the leakage of economic benefits.
Developing prospects of typology of ecotourism complexes
Published in Evgeny Rybnov, Pavel Akimov, Merab Khalvashi, Eghiazar Vardanyan, Contemporary Problems of Architecture and Construction, 2021
Ecotourism is a dynamically evolving section of the global tourism industry, which has existed for more than 30 years. A common definition of ecotourism indicates that it is a form of sustainable tourism focused on visiting natural territories primarily not disturbed by business activities (McIntosh et al. 1995).
Development and Validation of Ecotourism Smartphone Application Scale (ESAS) and General Experience Scale (GES)
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2022
Tanalachimi Ganapathy, Mohd Kamal Othman, Abdulrazak Saleh Yahya
In this study, we have defined ecotourism sites using the definition by the International Ecotourism Society (TIES), which defines ecotourism as “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the well-being of the local people, and involves interpretation and education” (TIES, 2017). The duration of the data collection was eight months prior to the COVID19 pandemic lockdown. Furthermore, the local community living within the Sarawak, Borneo were also approached to participate in this survey. However, we only received minimal participants from developed countries during the data collection. Hence, most participants came from developing countries, as illustrated in Table 3.