Tourism is one of the world’s largest economic sectors. Ecotourism is its fastest growing component (United Nations World Tourism Organization 2007), and a promising strategy for sustainable development. Rural Central America and the Caribbean are in need of sustainable development and contain promising ecotourism sites. Despite their empirical importance and potential, tourism and ecotourism a...

Forest reserves are spaces of conservation and often ecotourism as well. Evidence suggests that local community participation in the forest reserve space tends to break down under weak sector management. The Bossou Reserve (BFR) Guinea, West Africa has deteriorated considerably due fragmentation inexorable decline chimpanzee populations since 1970s. situation is largely attributable several com...

Ecotourism development planning is a multi-criteria process that generally requires spatial analysis. GISimos MCDA model developed by this study, was presented for the first time and applied to Kalecik sub-province of Ankara, Turkey determine suitable areas their suitability levels ecotourism development. The based on evaluation sub-factors representing topography, land cover, climate sociocult...


 The article analyzes the current situation and dynamics of ecotourism in Azerbaijan, role national parks development this sector, possibilities using natural cultural heritage resources for ecotourism. growing demand on international tourism market is based joint use existing potential heritage, which implies its implementation liberated territories. shows importance products offered by ...

Ecotourism presents a small segment of nature-tourism, which is understood as travelling to relatively undisturbed or uncontaminated natural areas (Gőssling, 1999). According to the World Wildlife Fund, in 1995 nature-tourism consisted of 15% of all tourism worldwide. The term ecotourism can be well described with the following five criteria: nature conservation, low impact, sustainability, mea...

This paper discusses a systematic approach to evaluating ecotourism operations in a given locale. It employs a set of six principles as the basis for evaluation. Indicators and standards are site-specific and agreed upon by managers and stakeholders. When possible, tour operators, protected area managers (public and private), visitors, and local people participate in the evaluation. The paper g...

every time a visitor sets foot in an ecotourism site, he/she causes a negative impact. this is an unavoidable fact. an ecotourism program initiates many public use activities that will have impacts ,both positive and negative. an ecotourism management plan seeks to minimize the negative impacts.therefore monitoring and managing of visitor impacts are fundamental ecotourism management strategie...

the recognition of human bioclimatic comfort in geographical area is an important factor for planning of ecotourism. climate is a very important component to identify natural landscape values. for better planning and management of landscape units such as recreational purposes, there is a need for emphasis on the visual aesthetic aspects, and also for understanding the climatic effects on recrea...