5 Chapter I: Introduction 6 Arrival 6 Thesis Outline 8 Chapter II: Geology, Geography, and History 12 Geology and Geography 12 History 13 i. Pre-Settlement 13 ii. Settlement 16 iii. Darwin’s Visit 19 iv. Modern History 22 Chapter III: The Anthropology of Tourism 25 Introduction 25 History and Notable Works 25 Theory 31 Themes 33 Chapter IV: Costa Rica and Ecotourism 35 Why Costa Rica? 35 Implem...

This research note considers ways in which we may better understand how ecotourism ventures impact on the lives of people living in, and around, the environments which ecotourists frequent. From a development perspective, ecotourism ventures should only be considered ‘successful’ if local communities have some measure of control over them and if they share equitably in the benefits emerging fro...

Ecotourism has arisen as a popular strategy for merging the interests of environmental conservation and development. One way of analyzing ecotourism is to consider how this linkage between environment and development is constructed in various environmental discourses to promote ecological, economic, and/or human interests. Although a variety of definitions and discursive models of ecotourism ar...

The World Tourism Organization has estimated that over 595 million people traveled internationally in 1997. Although tourism overall has been growing at an annual rate of 4%, nature travel, also known as ecotourism, is increasing at an estimated annual rate of 10-30%. The Ecotourism Society (TES) of North Bennington, Vermont, was founded in 1990 as a tool for both consumers and ecotourism profe...

zagros forests are a treasure of various valuable species of oak in iran and the world. long-term misuse in the past has caused severe degradation in the zagros forests. recently these forests have become national but misuses by local people to make living because of poverty and unemployment are continued. in order to reduce degradation and improve sustainability, ecological capability for exte...

Ecotourism and agricultural development have been proven to synergistic effects, although few studies employed a spatial planning approach incorporate tourism growth into crop cultivation planning. This study constructed theoretical framework of environmental suitability—farmland accessibility—tourist’s landscape preferences for link regional agriculture ecotourism development. The rapeseed in ...

Ecotourism as a strategy for achieving biodiversity conservation often results in limited conservation impact relative to its investment and revenue return. In cases where an ecotourism strategy has been used, projects are frequently criticized for not providing sufficient evidence on how the strategy has reduced threats or improved the status of the biodiversity it purports to protect. In Lao ...