Today, ecotourism is a major tourist activity around the world. It is based on environment potential through which suitable utilization and conservation of sites under management practices including considering accurate planning, potential, and peoples’ preferences are realized. The present study was conducted to determine people’s recreational preferences using questionnaires to evaluate the e...

Today, ecotourism is a major tourist activity around the world. It is based on environment potential through which suitable utilization and conservation of sites under management practices including considering accurate planning, potential, and peoples’ preferences are realized. The present study was conducted to determine people’s recreational preferences using questionnaires to evaluate the e...

Cuba since the early 1990's has made a fundamental shift in economic policy toward hard currency endeavors such as tourism and trade. The shift was thought to come from the fall of the Soviet Union and the loss of billions of dollars in economic subsidies, but the changes towards development of tourism was completed prior to the fall of the Soviet Union. The present paper will discuss the histo...

Introduction Resources-based tourism is often an economic necessity in natural resources-dependent communities. Tikal National Park, located in the Petén region of northern Guatemala (Figure 1), contains an ancient Mayan urban center and was declared a mixed cultural–natural World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1979 (National G...

Ecological degradation is an escalating global threat. Increasingly, people are expressing awareness and priority for concerns about environmental problems surrounding them. Environmental protection issues are highlighted. An appropriate information technology tool, the growing popular social network system (virtual community, VC), facilitates public education and engagement with applications f...

regarding gender inequality in many communities, empowerment of women has become an important subject and received more attention in recent years. results of many researches show that tourism especially ecotourism affects women empowerment in its different aspects by making them interested in participating tourism activities. based on findings of previous researches, the current study aims to a...

The paper aims to examine the trends and evolution of ecotourism research in last 20 years, highlighting co-citations, collaborations, emerging themes. A total 1387 ecotourism-related from Web Science (WoS) database 1991 2021 were analyzed some bibliometric analyses using CiteSpace V software. WoS was scanned terms “ecotourism” “eco-tourism.” While scanning, “Hospitality, Leisure, Sport, Touris...

The importance of language in the changing usage of particular environments is a topic worthy of greater attention than hitherto. Fraser Island has passed through a period of intense political conflict to one in which it is dominated by the new discourse of ecotourism. It is now part of that global development in which it is claimed that tourists can become properly informed about, and become p...