Ecoturism
The Ecotourism Society defines it as "responsible travel to natural areas which conserves the environment and improves the welfare of the local people". Awalk through the rainforest is not eco-tourism unless that particular walk somehow benefits that environment and the people who live there. A rafting trip is only eco-tourism if itraises awareness and funds to help protect the watershed. A loose interpretation of this definition allows many companies to promote themselves as something that they are not. Iftrue eco-tourism is important to you, ask plenty of questions to determine if your trip will help "conserve and improve" the places you visit.
2) Environmentally risky.
Eco-tourism may sound benign, but one of its most serious impacts is the expropriation of`virgin' territories - national parks, wildlife parks and other wilderness areas - which arepackaged for eco-tourists as the green option. Eco-tourism is highly consumer-centered, catering mostly to urbanised societies and the new middle-class `alternative lifestyles'.Searching for `untouched' places `off the beaten track' of mass tourism, travellers have already opened up many new destinations.
Mega-resorts, including luxury hotels,condominiums, shopping centres and golf course, are increasingly established in nature reserves in the name of eco-tourism - in many cases protested as `eco-terrorism'. Such projects buildcompletely artificial landscapes, tending to irretrievably wipe out plant and wildlife species - even entire eco-systems.
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Yes, because ecotourism conserves the environmentand helps the earth, ecotourism can be a good idea for the environment but some people do this thing with other benefits only for money and it can be a danger for the environment
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