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 … industry are experiencing increasing pressure. As a consequence, researchers and local people recognise that sustainability is …

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 … industry are experiencing increasing pressure. As a consequence, researchers and local people recognise that sustainability is …

Debates about ecotourism are futile without an understanding of how concepts of ecologically acceptable and …

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 …

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 …

implementing sustainability. Ecotourism is placed in the context of this overview of activity towards sustainable tourism …Not all sustainable tourism is ecotourism. Indeed, this paper argues that no form of tourism has achieved … sustainability, and that sustainability is a goal that all tourism should strive towards. Tourism is a very fragmented industry …

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 …

Debates about ecotourism are futile without an understanding of how concepts of ecologically acceptable and …