practical application, planners and managers of ecotourism have not embraced them with particular enthusiasm. The explanation … offered in this paper has two main strands. On the demand side, those involved in planning and managing ecotourism have, for a … objectives of ecotourism. Planners and managers of ecotourism have therefore remained largely unconvinced of the practicality of …

Ecotourism is nature-based, learning-oriented tourism that has the intent of being environmentally, economically and … socio-culturally sustainable. The positive impacts of ecotourism include its incentive effect for protecting natural … large-scale or "soft" ecotourism is likely to produce more benefits than small-scale or "hard" ecotourism. …

price of a trip to Costa Rica. Implications are discussed in relation to hard- and soft-path ecotourism, with the former …

The terms "sustainability" and "ecotourism" have become much used in recent years, yet there have been few examinations … growth has not been without costs and controversies. The development of a successful ecotourism business by local indigenous … with the rapid growth of an ecotourism destination. …

Ecotourism can be considered to be the "dictated solution" of a conservation counter-narrative that calls for both … sustainable use of wildlife and community-based conservation. This paper addresses the promotion of ecotourism by a specific group … of wildlife conservation "experts", and the implementation of ecotourism as a conservation strategy at three case …

Not all sustainable tourism is ecotourism. Indeed, this paper argues that no form of tourism has achieved … development for tourism; this paper is arguably skewed towards the large-scale translation. The paper seeks to position ecotourism … implementing sustainability. Ecotourism is placed in the context of this overview of activity towards sustainable tourism …

Increasingly, ecotourism is advocated not only as a form of sustainable tourism, but also for the contribution that it … ecotourism can make towards sustainable livelihoods, and it is being advocated as a pro-poor strategy in the developing countries …. Ecotourism must not, however, be considered in a vacuum, isolated from all other forms of economic activity. It is vital to set …

practical application, planners and managers of ecotourism have not embraced them with particular enthusiasm. The explanation … offered in this paper has two main strands. On the demand side, those involved in planning and managing ecotourism have, for a … objectives of ecotourism. Planners and managers of ecotourism have therefore remained largely unconvinced of the practicality of …

Ecotourism is nature-based, learning-oriented tourism that has the intent of being environmentally, economically and … socio-culturally sustainable. The positive impacts of ecotourism include its incentive effect for protecting natural … large-scale or "soft" ecotourism is likely to produce more benefits than small-scale or "hard" ecotourism. …

price of a trip to Costa Rica. Implications are discussed in relation to hard- and soft-path ecotourism, with the former …