Ecotourism: Sustainable Tourism On The Culture And Environment

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Ecotourism
Sustainable tourism about using natural resources in a responsible way for recreation so its comprise ecofriendly dolphin and whale watching and fishing etc. http://marinebio.org/oceans/conservation/sustainable-tourism/
Ecotourism describe as holiday travels that present travellers with educational knowledge and daring experience by travelling multifaceted and captivating environment and their linked traditions and cultural heritages. Ecotourism concept started in late 1980s and it’s become popular in 2002 when the United Nation introduces International Year of Ecotourism. When doing the ecotourism there should be minimum effect on the culture and the environment and it should tell the visitors who visiting the places about what …show more content…

Tourism can be divided in many ways, such as ecotourism, rural tourism, virtual tourism, industrial tourism, space tourism, Geo tourism etc. Ecotourism describe supplying the tourism needs and wants of the visitors without harming to the natural environment. Ecotourism development attaches with various subsets because many other sectors in the economy get covered from the ecotourism products such as hotel services involving providing suitable lodging for the visitors, logistics services involving to provide easy accessibility and the right information technology involving providing right information to the tourist to give an idea about the culture, places, history, and the food they are going to have. So people have to concern about these components when they going to build an ecotourism area. (Wordpresscom, …show more content…

According to this case study researcher examine the way they use ecotourism in Kaikoura to achieve sustainability. Kaikoura situated in east coast of New Zealand and it is a small coastline city. In this period of time their population was 3500 and it has rapidly grown in the tourism industry because of the plenty of marine resources they have in that area. For instant seals, dolphin varieties, birds, whales and various marine resources are there. So it become reason that this city shift from economical depressed area to the area with full of opportunities. As a result, people start a new business in this town such as providing accommodation and catering facilities, start a new craft shop, takeaway restaurant and pubs, moreover their real estate price also increased. Most of the companies who, operating in Kaikoura consider themselves as ecotourism operators although Kaikoura hasn’t purposely built to develop as an ecotourism destination. (Orams,

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