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...

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...

This is a brief note on ecotourism typologies as reported by different authors at different points of time. As such, this note tries to throw light on the research done so far on segmentation of ecotourists. One important parameter of ecotourist market segmentation that is receiving increased attention is the concept of a hard-to-soft spectrum that allows for identification of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’...

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...

this study aims at identifying the suitable areas for ecotourism using geographic information system (gis) and analytical hierarchy process (ahp) in experimental and educational kheyroud forest, nowshar, mazandaran province. the evaluation process was conducted based on three groups including ecological, infrastructural, and socio-economic criteria. then, the indicators of each main groups were...

this research was carried out to investigate the role of natural resources cooperatives in ecotourism development. this was an analysis-descriptive study conducted through survey method. statically population of study was 123 members of the directors of these cooperatives. a structured questionnaire was designed and distributed among the cooperative directors. census technique was applied in th...

tourism development in to geographical areas especially ecotourism, in addition to their economic, social and cultural consequences, will also leave great environmental impacts on geographical locations. if careful preventive and proactive measures in the form of strategy formulation, setting standards and ongoing specific assessments are not taken, destructive effects of ecotourism in an exten...