Pakistan is having scarcity of forests, with the total area covered under forest being 5%, while it must be 25%. Inspite of the fact that we have to protect and expand our forests, many other alternative land cover and land use practices are going to be more common. Current study is a part of that effort. To have panel discussion and interviews of activists and key persons of the rural areas in...

There are many types of tourism on offer in the world market, with tourism types being as diverse as the kind of experience that the visitor demands. Destinations characteristically engage in tourism models that cater to the needs and wants of the tourist market they attract. However, research and experience have shown that different tourism models affect the local people of a destination in di...

In recent decades, large expanses of tropical rainforest in central and western Africa have been cleared, logged, fragmented, and overhunted. In contrast, extensive forest in Gabon has survived in a relatively intact condition because the country has a sparse population and substantial petroleum and mineral deposits that have reduced economic pressures on forests. Unfortunately, Gabon’s petrole...

The Tourism Company is a UK-based tourism consultancy working in the field of tourism research, planning, development and marketing, with a specialism in rural tourism, ecotourism and protected areas.

introduction although the concept of ecotourism as the ideal of environmental protection and sustainable development is based on the global current the role of human interference in the nature is more than that of natural conditions. because of this, there is still a vulnerable stability condition. other scholars including carter and caudal are in doubt about tourism and environmental sustainab...

Ethics committee approval was obtained for the research from Committee of Sirnak University on 09.04.2021 (No:2021/32). The main purpose is to examine relationship between people's ecotourism awareness and their perception, who living in Şırnak province. In this context, data were collected by questionnaire April 10 May 30, 2021 using quantitative method. Data through WhatsApp, Facebook, e-mail...

Th is study provides a timely update of some empirical fi ndings of ecotourism experience in relation to Chinese tourists’ post-trip behaviors. Based on a qualitative research approach through in-depth interview with 28 Chinese domestic tourists, the authors show that Chinese tourists explicitly or implicitly have adapted environmentally friendly lifestyles after their ecotourism travel, althou...

Tourism resources in the Northern Piedmont in the Qinling Mountains (NPQM) are quite abundant and play an important role in the development of the tourist industry in Shaanxi Province. Based on reviewing the status quo of ecotourism in the NPQM and existing issues, this paper puts forward countermeasures and recommendations for sustainable development of ecotourism in the NPQM. Firstly, a syste...

The main aim of this research is to investigate local residents' and foreign tourists' intentions participate in ecotourism practices by using attitudes towards ecotourism, likeability tourist landscapes, intention environmental knowledge ecotourism. Local residents tourists took part the research. According findings, have high averages terms attitude knowledge, but, low their more positive hig...