Ecotourism in the Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica and Tanzania

Tourism is the world’s largest industry with nature-based ecotourism seeing rapid growth since its initial arrival in the 1980s. It is estimated by the World Tourism Organisation that nature tourism generates 7% of all international travel expenditure (Lindberg, 1997) and this figure will have increased rapidly over recent years. It’s increase in popularity is due to a number of factors; tourists becoming increasingly bored of the typical sun, sea and sand holiday’s, the increase in global awareness or environmental issues such as global

Costa Rica is certainly more than a vacation location, It a place that makes you want to come back for many long lifetime memories. It a place that gives you interactive experience each day. The country provides a collection of biodiversity and environmental charm in which you want to crave more each day. With royal volcanoes, foggy cloud forests, stunning river valleys, and tons of beaches along both the Pacific and Caribbean coasts. Costa Rica can grant you an amazing story that you can explore with its lovely geographic location. It shows the history of how peaceful and family driven culture is. So came explore what we call Costa Rica.

I have had the opportunity to live in both Montana and Costa Rica, both which are synonymous with anything that might encompass the thoughts of adventure,environment and the outdoors. So much so, that their economy is centralized around eco-tourism. I always had Glacier National Park, the Bob Marshal Wilderness and Corcovado National Park right at my footsteps do to my father being a wildlife biologist.

Ecotourism began in Costa Rica in the 1970’s. It was very small and began to grow exponentially in the late 1980’s. In 1970 Costa Rica had a GNP, gross national product of 1000 million in 1995 that number nonuple to 9000 million. Many consider 1978 the first year ecotourism began in Costa Rica. At that time, Costa Rica had a GNP/capita of 1500. After the ecotourism boom, the number ballooned to 2000 in 1992. It is evident by the 33% increase in GNP/capita that ecotourism was a positive influence economically on Costa Rica.

The Dominican Republic is the right example in the Caribbean for a relative late tourism development. In comparison with other island destinations, the Dominican Republic was politically affected and became unstable (Freitag, 1994: 538).

Costa Rica is very fun place to travel to. Many Americans take a relaxing vacation to Costa Rica. The Costa Ricans are very inviting and make the place a very good tourist attraction. They have a very unique geography, religion, and the nature is very cool.

The Gringo have been coming to Costa Rica for a long time. Why? Because they were attracted by the promise of wealth from coffee, French, German, and British entrepreneurs. They were attracted by how much money they could make for their families. The single Gringo men were very attracted to the single Costa Rican women, they even married some of them. Foreign tourist who visited the country fell in love with the country so much they moved there in hope for finding more peace which, they did indeed find. Committing to a life of harmony with the land. The effectiveness of tourism arrivals has stimulated major changes in the environmental awareness of the

Costa Rica is well known for protecting the environment and the renewable resources as reported earlier, Costa Rica has electricity that is produced entirely from renewable resources. Furthermore, Costa Rica has over 615 species, which is part of recent emergence from the ocean as well as protection and conservation in many places. Costa Rica has definitely done an excellent job of protecting their environment. The country landscape is unique and vastly different among the two coastlines, with three different types of forest, and gorgeous reefs, deep and moist valley, as well as a volcanic earth. The valleys are kept untouched, which is part of the ecotourism. This environmental and sustainability helps the environments as well as the economy for the Costa Rica people. Because tourism and sustainability have helped the country to become a major tourism destination, which promotes the experience of the natural and environmentally friendly hotels and resorts around the rich coasts. This promotes business growth while helping business owners invest their money back into many new environmental

Costa Rica, meaning "Rich Coast," owes its versatility and natural treasures to its varied geography, ecological zones, and microclimates.

The Republic of Costa Rica is a picturesque country located in Central America, forming a land bridge between Nicaragua and Panama. Tourists flock to this country each year, attracted by its lush tropical forests and its colourful fauna. However, Costa Rica’s average tourist may be surprised to learn that poverty is a persistent problem for this apparently rich and diverse country. Many Costa Ricans (familiarly known as Ticos) suffer from poor health and complain about bad infrastructure. Although the tourism industry provides substantial revenue for Costa Rica, the industry also has a dark side, including the promotion of prostitution and drug abuse, among other things. When these three factors poor health, bad infrastructure, and tourism

In developing countries, many citizens define development as having a quality of life and surviving (citation 19:17). In contrast, societies in western countries often view development as a constant growth in technology, which often has negative impacts on the environment. As a result, the concept of sustainable development has been created to express new methods of evolving as a society without doing any damage to the environment (citation). In order to have economic gains in a country that practices sustainable development, it will be necessary for conservationists to promote tourism. For example, tourists often stay in resorts in Africa to admire wild predators, such as lions (citation). Although the development of resorts may have negative impacts on the environment, tourists contribute large amounts of money to the local communities. Additionally, trophy hunting serves as a reasonable form of sustainable development in countries where citizens are threatened by large predators. For example, in Tanzania, inhabitants have experienced falling victim to lion attacks (citation). Trophy hunting serves as a major form of development in Tanzania because individuals associate a numerical value with large animals (citation). This will result in an increased concern for the populations of these animals, which will promote conservation

As mentioned by Rimmington & Morrison (2009), the assistance from different parts of the world presents a new and diverse outlook for future research including theoretical innovations and revelations, cultural and environmental aspects, tourist destination and other ecotourism and recreational aspects of tourism and hospitality industry (Brotherton,

This paper explores a great number of academic research journals and databases on the impact that the tourism industry has on the countries in the Caribbean. Tourism impacts the Caribbean in three different sections. Tourism has a social impact that allows for increases in revenue, jobs, and service for the people living there. Tourism’s cultural impact allows the history and heritage of the Caribbean to be acknowledged and practiced not only here but around the world as tourists come and go. Tourism’s environmental impact effects the natural and geographical diversity that can only be found in these countries. Although tourism brings about many advantages in all three categories, there are still negatives attributes that appear from tourism that must be handled properly to maintain a successful industry. This paper examines 12 different research journals that suggest all of the positives and negatives of tourism in the Caribbean and how they can effect not only the tourism industry but the area in which they are practiced.

The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry

Albeit, there lurks a reality that defies this rosy illusion. The adverse effects of tourism on the economy are many and significant. In the long run, few clear advantages are visible. For countries of the Caribbean, that support their total national revenue