Tourism Part 3

Part 3: Ecotourism: opportunities, challenges and regulation

1. Define Ecotourism

2. Benefits and Negative impacts of Ecotourism:

Benefits:

• Social benefits
• Economic benefits
• Environmental benefits

Negative Impacts

• Social (displacement of local communitieies and threats to indigigenous cultures)
• Economic (leakage)
• Environmental (greenwashing and damage to fragile environments)

Case Study: Benefits and negative impacts in one small scale case study of ecotourism eg Costa Rica

3. The Challenges in establishing effective international regulation and explain how each of the following measures is used to regulate ecotourism:

• the Quebec declaration
• Global ecotourism conference 2007
• Green globe scheme
• UNESCO world Heritage Sites