Principles and Concepts of Ecotourism

ECO-TOURISM

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Principles and Concepts of Ecotourism...........................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Ecotourism is basically a form of tourism whose attempt is to reduce the impact of the
tourism on the environment which makes it ecologically sound and also avoids the negative
impacts of tourism on the large-scale developments. The report will focus on the concepts of
ecotourism. It will also shed light on the ways in which principles of ecotourism helps in
developing the stakeholder sustainably.
Principles and Concepts of Ecotourism
Ecotourism basically deals in the variety of travel practices which is also known as
sustainable tourism which decides to travel in such a way which helps in showing the respect the
nature and also do not helps in contributing to its degradation. Furthermore, it is considered as a
part of the conservation of environment and provides and overall understanding of the needs of
the people especially who lives local to those areas of travel which can help in improving the
quality of their life. This also helps in understanding about the other cities’ history and
preservation of their historical landmarks. There are many principles of ecotourism such as
reducing the impacts of social, physical, psychological and behavioural concepts, building the
awareness and respect based on the cultural and environmental perspective, providing to the
visitors and the hosts positive experiences, providing direct financial benefits in conserving the
environment (de Azeredo and Zaú, 2017). The other principles include generating financial
benefits for both the private industry and the local people. Delivering the memorable
interpretative experiences to the visitors which helps in raising sensitivity to the environmental,
political and social climates of the host countries and the designing, operating and constructing
the facilities of low-impact also becomes the principle of eco-tourism. This also helps in
recognising the rights and the spiritual beliefs of the indigenous people in the community which
are known as the stakeholders and work in partnership with them for creating empowerment. The
principles of the eco-tourism are impacted by the stakeholders and also impacts them as they
start trusting and believing in the tourism industry and they do not hesitate in investing in the
companies of tourism sector which also increases its credibility and brand value. This is just
because it neither harms any living life or the nature. The most three common concepts of the
ecotourism are the educational, natural based and sustainable (Mtapuri and Giampiccoli, 2019).
These also provides benefits and the costs but there are sometimes circumstances in which
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