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What Defines Eco-tourism

• Gain an Impressionable experience

• Contribute to protection and management of the local environment

• Respect and strengthen cultural standards

• Directly benefit the local economy

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Purpose of Eco-tourism

• Develop a thoughtful and informed relationship with the creation

• Learn good stewardship and management of the creation

• Respond to become an ethical traveler in the creation
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

How to be an Ethical Traveler

"Prejudices about a country or people can best be removed by visiting the place"

- Margaret Mead

"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."

- Jimmy Carter

• Journey with an open mind

• Accept with grace and gratitude the diversity I encounter

• Revere and protect the natural creation which sustains all life

• Respect and thank my hosts for their welcome

• Travel as a 'guest' and not a 'customer' whose demands should be met

• Offer my hand of friendship to everyone I meet

• Support the locally owned infrastructure that is environmentally sound

• hotels, restaurants, retail equipment, grocery stores, etc.

• Appreciate all cultures I discover and respect local norms

• dress, language, music and family values

• Be sensitive to the impacts of my travels on the local environment

• wildlife, firewood, fuel, litter, water, garbage

• Be sensitive to the impacts of my travels on local traditions

• hunting, fishing, dance, local rituals

• Encourage others to travel the world in peace with a servants attitude

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Avoiding Cultural Damage

Threat to local cultural norms and values

• dress

• language

• religious practices

• music

• smoking, alcohol,

• prostitution, drugs

Loss of Cultural Integrity and traditions

• Hunting

• Fishing

• Dance

• Local rituals

• Political policy

Local infrastructure

• Dependency on tourism dollars

• Leakage

• Locally owned businesses

• restaurants, grocery stores, retail equipment, hotel

• Local environment

• Wildlife, firewood, fuel, litter, water, garbage
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

What should we reasonably expect in our travels?

• Good drinking water

• Safe environment from crime and wildlife dangers

• Healthy and reliable foods

• Protection from the elements (screens, water proof roofs)

• Clean living conditions

• Mutual respect for our own culture

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Varieties of Eco-tourism

• Educational

• Natural Experience

• Adventure

• Service opportunities

• Historical

• Cultural

• Low impact

• Advertisement

What Eco-tourism is NOT

• Based outside the Local economy

• Rely on skills or resources of anyone but natives

• Purely Wilderness or High-adventure travel

• Specialized trekking, climbing or rafting excursions

Economics of Eco Tourism

Eco Tourism at the National Level

Eco-tourism at the Local Level

Eco-tourism at the Park Level

Eco Tourism as Education

Learning Styles as described from the multiple intelligence approach to active learning

• Analytic

• Kinesthetic

• Musical

• Linguistic

• Intrapersonal

• Interpersonal

• Natural

• Visual

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