Taking a Look at Ecotourism

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

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Being one of Costa Rica’s most viewed attraction there is wide range of activities that people there do like hiking on the mountains there also rivers were fishing and kayaking are done at.

Indigenous communities, which have otherwise been left untouched by traditional tourism activities, have now been targeted for a new tourism venture, ecotourism. A relatively new variant, ecotourism is described as environment-friendly, sustainable and nature-based. It came about as a response to the world’s growing environmental awareness. This activity involves “visiting relatively undisturbed natural areas with the aim

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.

George Wallace’s first Ecotourism Principle requires minimizing negative impacts to locals and the environment (Wallace, 1999). New Belgium directly reflects this principle through their core value of being environmental stewards by, “minimizing resource consumption, maximizing energy efficiency and recycling,” (New Belgium Brewery, 2017b). As stated previously, New Belgium has their own wastewater treatment plant that promotes to reduce, reuse, and recycle water and eventually return to the city for residential use. Furthermore, their core value of constantly innovating quality and enhancing improvements enforces minimal negative impacts to locals and the environment (New Belgium Brewery, 2017b).

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

Tourism is the main industry in Costa Rica. The number of international tourist visiting the country increased from 261,000 in 1986 to 779,000 in 1996. Some potential effect of tourism include damage to costal and mangrove areas along the beach, improper sewage and garbage disposal, disturbance of nesting areas of endangered sea turtles, and destruction of national forest for tourists developments. It is essential for the government to implement and enforce stricter regulations for the development of the tourist industry in order to assure the continued prosperity of the tropical dry-forests ecosystems. (Frankie, Mata, and Vinson

Another country that has significantly embraced ecotourism is Costa Rica. A tiny Central American country located just a few hours’ flight from the United States, Costa Rica rapidly transformed to a green destination, and in 1992 the U.S. Adventure Travel Society declared Costa Rica “the number one ecotourism destination in the world” (160). Its success finds its root in a mix of positive conditions that most of the other ecotourism sites lack, varying from a stable democracy to the abolition of the army, and including one of the highest standards of

You know that feeling you have when you are in a place so beautiful that it takes your breath away? That’s exactly what it feels like to be in Brazil. I have never been to a place more colorful, unique or magnificent than Brazil. And I believe that I would not have had such an amazing trip if I had not chosen to travel with Ideia Tours. I choose Ideia Tours because they are a certified sustainable tour operator and I wanted to have an experience that was conscious about the impact tourism has on a destination. Before traveling, I wanted to find out where Ideia’s sustainable certification label came from and how it adheres to the World Tourism Organization’s three main aspects of sustainable

Even though it impacts their lives, the community continues to support this industry. This may make the economic situation worse, in terms of consequences from taxes, etc. In order to assist Port Alberni’s economy, eco-tourism could be a great way to get people out to Port Alberni and for locals to find work. This could help to diversify the economy and allow people to get jobs from activities that work in tandem with conservation. It would give a natural economic incentive for people to keep the forests preserved and natural resources only used

Costa Rica's most valuable natural resource is the fertile soil. The biggest in Costa Rica is Deforestation. 7 percent of Costa Rica's people are in either farming or ranching. Costa Rica imports more than exporting. Costa Rica has many partners for exporting one of is China which is 6.2 percent. Another exporting partner is Mexico 4.6 percent. Last is the netherlands which is 4.2 percent.The leading partner to Costa Rica is the United States and the percentage is 33.6 percent. The Central American Common Market , it is an economic union formed to stimulate trade among its members. Tourists are attracted to Costa Rica because of their biodiversity which is one of their keys to having more people. The main export good are bananas, coffee, sugar, beef. Foreign investors are still attracted to Costa Rica because of the free trade zones that they have. Costa Rica's has one of the top most attractions in Latin America. However the situations of energy costs , weak investment protection and not being sure about contracts there is a large amount of competitiveness. The economy decrease but still grows at 4 percent each year. Costa Rica suffers public debt and low levels of domestic revenue. Poverty is still a really big thing in Costa Rica. It is about 20-25 percent for nearly 20 years. The real growth is 4.3. The unemployment rate is not bad it is 9.3-9.4

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

Retention of Visitor spending: The key to achieving economic sustainability for tourism in (i.e. California and Giants Causeway) is maximising the economic retention of tourist spending in your local economy. The sustainable tourism businesses need to develop strategies that are capable of meeting the long-term economic needs and aspirations of the local community. If the communities are engaged by tourism organisations as stakeholders in tourism, and economic partners in the tourism industry, this will actively support local tourism businesses. Tourism is a rapidly growing industry and has far-reaching economic and environmental impact across the destinations; hence, if tourism is an important source of local employment and a significant