Environmental Impacts of Ecotourism

Ecotourism is widely recognized as the most rapidly growing sector within the global tourism industry. By definition, ecotourism is travel to minimally impacted natural areas and associated cultural locales. Ecotourists enjoy nature, and cultures that coexist harmoniously with the natural environment; they are conscious of minimizing their impacts on nature and local cultures and aim to improve socio-economics of local populations. Given this relatively noble profile, compared to other tourist types, can the ecotourist actually have adverse ecological impacts on places and peoples visited, the land, water and air traversed, and the animals and plants viewed?

Từ khóa: Environmental impacts of ecotourism, global tourism, natural environment, du lịch sinh thái, môi trường tư nhiên, kinh tế xã hội