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...

introductionto avoid the adverse consequences of tourism, some decisions must be made about its development. to achieve this purpose, one of the first steps is to identify the suitable regions for tourism development and land use planning which will eventually lead to optimum model of development of tourism destination. due to having unique natural attractions such as mountains, dense forests, ...

Ecological environment is the material base of the development of ecotourism. The ecotourism cannot develop well without high quality ecotourism environment. The goal of ecotourism development is to protect ecological environment, which is also the essential characteristic of ecotourism different from other kind of tourism. This paper tries to discuss the community participation in environmenta...

This paper is aimed to study the roles of leadership and innovation in the development of local people based ecotourism services. The survey is conducted in Candirejo village, Borobudur District, Magelang Regency. The study of a descriptive approach is employed to identify people's behavior in ecotourism services. The results showed that ecotourism services have developed and provided benefits ...

Ecotourists appreciate nature and are willing to learn about nature and ecology. Th erefore ecotourism is often seen as a product package that supports sustainable tourism development. Th is study contributes to existing research in the fi eld of ecotourism as it investigates how travel motives and environmental concern of mountain tourists infl uences their actual demand for ecotourism. A surv...

This dissertation chiefly examines the difficulties and principles of establishing sustainable ecotourism based on local communities. Furthermore, mainly address management techniques of sustainability in Costa Rica, a country with a growing reputation as an ecotourist destination; meanwhile, throw light upon that effective management and setting up Green Certification Program could improve eff...

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...

Ecotourism in the Atlantic islands region is well-established and growing. Still, in the whale watching and marine tourism sector, many so-called ecotourism enterprises fail to achieve the minimum standards required to qualify as ecotourism. In the Atlantic islands area, approximately 1.7 million people a year go whale watching, with a total expenditure of US$133 million. In this region, the 90...

With the critique of ‘fortress conservation’, ecotourism has become an important element of biodiversity conservation (Butcher 2007: 22ff, Chatty/Colchester 2002): local people are no longer driven out of nature reserves, they are included in conservation efforts instead. Ecotourism has been developed in the context of such conservation efforts. Promising to reconcile ‘man’ and ‘nature’, ecotou...