in order to evaluate the ecological potential for assessing the ecotourism application a region was confined to dez river. mcharg method and networks method were applied. according to makhdoum’s method, to determine environmental units, the ecological resources of the region were surveyed. then evaluation of the ecological potential was carried out on the basis of ecotourism and qualified regio...

It is critical to develop a sustainable ecotourism service system for the fragile Penghu National Scenic Area in Taiwan. This study, therefore, adopted fuzzy Delphi method and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) establish an index framework. The results identified four dimensions with 21 factors. findings are as follows. Safety management capability found be main factor system. Ecological diversit...

sufficiently large that submarkets are apparent. Eagles (1995a) suggests, using a motive-based methodology for segmentation, that the nature-tourism market contains at least four recognizable niche markets: ecotourism, wilderness use, adventure travel, and car camping. Ecotourism involves travel for the discovery of and learning about wild, natural environments. Wilderness travel involves perso...

Despite being the world's largest rays and providing significant revenue through dive tourism, little is known about the population status, exploitation and trade volume of the Mobulidae (mobulids; Manta and Mobula spp.). There is anecdotal evidence, however, that mobulid populations are declining, largely due to the recent emergence of a widespread trade for their gill rakers, which is reflect...

Bena traditional village is a tourist located in Tiwuriwu Village, Ngada Regency, NTTProvince. This develops ecotourism as the basis for its tourism products. Ecotourismpractices Village that have been running significant impact on environmentalsustainability, utilizing socio-cultural economics local community. study aims to evaluate thefeasibility of practices by using principles parameter tod...

Southern stingrays, Dasyatis americana, have been provided supplemental food in ecotourism operations at Stingray City Sandbar (SCS), Grand Cayman since 1986, with this site becoming one of the world's most famous and heavily visited marine wildlife interaction venues. Given expansion of marine wildlife interactive tourism worldwide, there are questions about the effects of such activities on t...

abstractâ during past sixty years, the world has seen significant changes in the ways of travel from one place to another. in this time period, not only travel mode, but also tourism destinations, motivation and the number of these travels have been changed. one of those changes is the specific kind of tourism called ecotourism which has had so rapid growth in the recent years and has become on...