Preliminary Flashcards
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Environment
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Sustainable Community/ local people Preservation Conservation Low-impact (less negative impacts) to the environment
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Ecology
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Eco= Home
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Habitat
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Ecology
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Home for plants, animals and other resources
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Ecology
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Ecolodges
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Don’t disrupt it
Law- 1-10 trees for 10 year or more trees
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Local community
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Knew the place/history/take care of it
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Negative impacts
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Pollution (aesthetic pollution) (water, air)
Lubok river (Bohol)
Lucena city- Class A
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Principles
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Consider that we should have minimal impact
Environmental and cultural awareness (get the history)
Providing positive experiences (activities also have low impact)!
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Forms of tourism interrelated
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Nature-based tourism Sustainable tourism Community-based tourism Cultural tourism Wildlife tourism
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Ecotourism
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Not on Commercialization Not generating a lot of profit Low impact Accessible but not commercialized Proximity could be far
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Maintain and Sustain area
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Environmental fee
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Goals of ecotourism
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To travel (or tour in a way that avoids wasteful habits and conserves the world around them)
To have the smallest possible impact on their surroundings
Preserves natural resources
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To have the smallest possible impact on their surroundings
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Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
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Part of environmental conservation and understanding what Th needs of the people who are local to the at work that you can help to improve their quality in life
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Ecotourism
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Involves learning more about the history of other cities and preserving the historical landmarks
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Ecotourism
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Defined as the responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment , sustains the well-being of the local people and involves interpretation and education
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Ecotourism
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Education is meant to be inclusive in both staff and guest
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Ecotourism
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Principles of ecotourism
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- Minimize the negative impacts on natures and culture that can damage a destination
- Build environmental awareness and cultural respect
- Educate the traveler on the importance of conservation
- Stress the importance of responsible business, which works cooperatively with local authorities and people to meet local needs and deliver conservation benefits
- Direct revenues to the conservation and management of natural and protected areas
- Emphasize the needs for regional tourism zoning and visitor management plans
- Emphasize use of environmental and social base-line studies, as well as long term monitoring programs to assess and minimize impacts
- Strive to maximize economic benefit t for the host country, local business and communities, particularly people living in and adjacent to natural and protected areas
- Seek to ensure that tourism development does not exceed the social and environmental limits of acceptable change as determined by researchers in cooperation with local residents
- Rely on infrastructure that has been developed in harmony with the environment, minimizing use of fossil fuels, conserving local plants and wildlife, and blending with the natural and cultural environment
- Provide positive experiences for both visitors and hosts
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It avoids the negative impacts that can damage or destroy the natural or cultural environments being visited
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Minimize impacts
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It educates both the tourist and residents of a certain community on the importance of conservation within an ecotourism site
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Build environmental and cultural awareness and respect
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It builds unity and respect among the residents and fellow travelers
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Build environmental and cultural awareness and respect
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It brings economic benefits to local community and direct revenues to local people living near the protected area
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Provide positive experiences for both visitors and hosts
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Allows you to raise money for environmental protections in the region as well as the support of our locals
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Ecotourism
Provide positive experiences for both visitors and hosts
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Promotes the development of the region in which it is popular with both economic and socio-cultural side
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Ecotours
Provide positive experiences for both visitors and hosts
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Aimed at raising awareness among people in the field of ecology, environmental education
Ecotourism
Provide positive experiences for both visitors and hosts
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It directs revenues to the conservation of natural areas and management of protected areas
Provide direct financial benefits for conservation
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The local people benefits economically from conservation and the overall goal is to preserve the natural environment despite the human pressures of tourism
Provide direct financial benefits for conservation
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It emphasizes the needs for planning and sustainable growth of the tourism industry and seeks to ensure that tourism development does not exceed the social and environmental "capacity"
Provides financial benefits and empowerment for local people
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It retains a high percentage of revenues in the host country by stressing the use of locally-owned facilities and services
Raise sensitivity to host countries' political, environ,entail and social climate
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Ecotourism area Philippines
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Alibijaban Island, San Andres
Mt. Bulusan, Lake Bulusan, Sorsogon
Donsol, Butandimg
Bangkong Kahoy, Dolores
Hangga Falls, Sampaloc
Balesin
Infanta, Mt. Peninsula
Developing Ecotourism Road
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Ecotourism site people living in the community facilitating and maintaining the area
Community-based Sustainable Tourism
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Aim of Ecotourism
To let other generations experience what we are experiencing right now
Conservation and Preservation
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Employment of CBST
Tour guide
Cashier
Maintenance
Addition fund to maintain the community
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Example of CBST
Ugong Rock-Palawan
| Tour escort, cogon grass
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Ensure positive experience between tourist-visitors visiting the area living in the community
Community-based sustainable tourism
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Characteristics
Involves travel to natural destination flora or fauna
Minimizes impact
Build environmental awareness attachment with nature
Provides direct financial benefits
Respect for local culture
Conservation of biological diversity
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Emergence
Mid 1980s
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3 S tourism
Sea
Sand
Sun
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Type of tourism that Roemer on attractions directly related to th nature environment
Nature-based tourism
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Subset of nature-based tourism
Ecotourism
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Allowing for the supplementary portion of ecotourism that focuses on the cultural attributes of a destination and the cultural influences on the natural environment
Nature-based tourism
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Categories of Nature-Based Tourism
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3s tourism
Adventure tourism
Wildlife tourism
Captive tourism
Extractive tourism
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Involves shallow or superficial learning opportunities in conjunction with specific charismatic wildlife and sustainability objectives that are status quo- oriented on a particular site
Minimalist ecotourism
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Focused on entire ecosystems and encourages deep learning opportunities as well as behaviour transformation
Comprehensive ecotourism
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Adopted that seeks to restore these ecosystems and the environment of planet earth as the welfare of local communities and humanity as a whole
Enhancement sustainability
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Rpadly evolving subset of nature-based tourism that characterizes as being based on encounters with non-domesticated animals in non-carb and captive settings
Wildlife tourism
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Ecotourism contains a cultural component in its attraction base
Cultural tourism
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Subset of sustainable tourism
Ectoderm
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Usually perceived as involving tangible products extracted from the natural environment and is associated with hunting and fishing
Consumptive tourism
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Commonly thought of as an alternative model as opposed to mass tourism
Ecotourism
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This is a typical example of an alternative form of development wherein problems are solved using __ as opposed to __
Ecotourism
Bottom-up approach
Traditional top-down approach
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It is said that it is acologically sustainable tourisn with a primary focus on experiencing natural areas that fosters environmental and cultural understanding, appreciation and conservation."
ECOTOURISM
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These natural destinations are places that are often remote areas, whether inhabited or uninhabited and usually works under some kind of environmental protection.
INVOLVES TRAVEL TO NATURAL DESTINATION
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Tourism causes damages. Ecotourisn strives to minimize the adversr of hotel, trails and other infrastructure by using either recycyled materials, local products, renewable source of energy, recyclying and safe disposal of waste and garbages.
Minimizes impact
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It also requires the behavior of the tourists be regulated to ensure limited damage to system.
Minimizing the impact
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Ecotourism means education, for both tourists and residents of nearby communities.
BUILD ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS
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Before travelling or visiting to ecotourism places, tour operators should supply travelers, with reading materials and travel guides about the place to be visited. This shall include the culture, main description about the place and of course a code of conduct for both the traveler and industry itself.
Build environmental awareness
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By doing this, it helps prepare a tourist as the Ecotourism Socities guidelines state "to learn about the place and people visited" and "to minimizr their negative impacts while visiting sensitive environments and cultures"
Build environmental awareness
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Ecotourism helps raise funds for environmental protection, research and education through park entrance fees, airlines and airport taxes, voluntary contributions and many more.
Provide direct financial benefits for conservation
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The local community must be involved with and receive income and other tangible benefits such as potable water, roads, health clinics etc... from conservation area and it's tourist facilities.
PROVIDES FINANCIAL BENEFITS & EMPOWERMENT FOR LOCAL PEOPLE
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Ecotourism invovles an unequal relationship of powet betwrrn traveler/visitor and the host community.
RESPECT LOCAL CULTURE.
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Part of being a responsible ecotourist is learning beforehand about the local customes, respecting dress codes and other social norms.
RESPECT LOCAL CULTURE.
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Ecotourism demands a holistic approach to travel, one in which participants stive to respect, learn about and benefit both the local environmental and local communities.
SUPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS.
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The emergence of the concept of sustainable development marked a convergence between economic development and environmentalism. This convergence was officially illustrated at the __, the first of a series of major UN conferences on global issues related to the environment. The conference promoted the concept of eco-development whereby cultural, social and ecological goals were integrated with development.
Stockholm Conference on Humans and the Environment in 1972
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Tourism was considered an ideal activity with little or no negative impacts for tourist destinations.
ADVOCACY PLATFORM
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Tourism was regarded as an ideal activity that resulted in many positive consequences.
Advocacy platform
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Benefits: direct revenues and employment, indirect revenues and employment through the multiplier effect, promotion of cross-cultural understanding, and incentives to preserve a destination's culture and history. Position was that government should promote/facilitate tourism.
Advocacy platform
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Idea formulated and proposed that tourism would eventually result in negative impacts for tourism destinations unless it was carefully planned and regulated.
CAUTIONARY PLATFORM
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This platform argued that direct and indirect revenues often did not directly impact the local economy, rather fed into multinational corporate profits.
Cautionary platform
