The early days of tourism development had a naïve vision of tourism’s impacts on society in terms of economic, social …, and environmental benefits. Time has passed, and we have learnt lessons regarding the success and failure of tourism … development. Mass tourism development has pros and cons and is not necessarily the optimal development model. Alternative …

associated to the environment preservation, such as: tourism in natural areas, ecotourism, adventure tourism, tourism in … the exploitation of natural areas by tourism has different forms, according to their extension, their landscape complexity … wilderness, camping. As a conclusion, we can say that the protected areas have become more and more a part of tourism, being …