Management in Ecotourism and Sustainable Development

Description

The term ecotourism is generally used to describe any manner of recreation or vacationing in a natural setting. It aims to conserve resources, use the resources sustainably, conserve the ecological environment and gain economic benefit. Ecotourism helps in involving local community for the conservation of the ecology and biodiversity of the area, that biodiversity in return provides the economic incentives to the local community. Ecotourism helps in community development by providing the alternate source of livelihood to the local community, which is more sustainable.

Eco-tourism contributes to conservation of biodiversity; sustains the well-being of local people; involves responsible action on the part of tourist and the tourism industry; promotes small and medium tourism enterprises; requires lowest possible consumption of natural resources; stresses local participation, ownership, and business opportunities, particularly for rural people.

Ecotourism offers benefits for local residents, conservation, development and educational experiences. Ecotourism is a sustainable form of natural resource-based tourism. It focuses primarily on experiencing and learning about nature, its landscape, flora, fauna and their habitats, as well as cultural artifacts from the locality. This book contains many papers contributed by eminent experts from across the world, addresses to the various problems of development of ecotourism and the sustainable development in various part of the world. It is the work of a subject expert.