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 warming, deforestation and conservation efforts.…
Poverty tourism is a modern form of tourism, where tourists travel to less developed places to observe the lives of impoverished and disadvantaged communities, typically located in the Third World. While experience seeking has emerged as a popular form of new tourism, it is necessary to ask the question of whether exercises such as poverty tourism are ethical. The purpose of this paper is to explore the conflicting paradigms of poverty tourism. Giving the reader a full understanding of poverty tourism and it’s effects on all parties involved, both positive and negative, and then speculate about the future of poverty tourism, and choices of tourists. This will be achieved by analysing the ethical issues associated with poverty tourism such as voyeurism, the demise of culture, unequal distribution of profit, the issue of control and management of poverty tourism as well as the possible benefits of this activity. Based on research and findings, the paper will also speculate the future of the poverty tourism and the sustainability of Third World tourism. With the use of credible authors and professionals in the field of tourism and poverty tourism, and the writer’s own personal experiences with poverty tourism and Third World tourism, the journal article concludes that the future of poverty tourism is dependent on the ability of stakeholders to efficiently manage the practice and ethical tourist behavior.…
With the growing global concern for the environment, new products, industries, and sustainable practices have emerged across a number of industries. The industry of tourism on an international and domestic scale is no different. Over the past few decades, the global tourism industry has witnessed an immense increase in travel based on environmentally sound practices, devised to be sustainable . Travellers are becoming increasingly interested in natural environments, cultures, and adventures. For this new market segment activities such as wilderness viewing, wildlife observation and hiking/trekking opportunities have become more popular to a wider base of customers within the tourism and travel industry . This new form of tourism, also known as ecotourism, has also become an integral part of a number of country’s environmental and economic practices .…
Can be found in every corner of the world, from major cities like Paris to remote villages in the Congo’s. They carry with them their own physical baggage that is part of them and gives them their name and their cultural baggage as well. Backpackers want to experience the real version of their trip without interruptions associated with mass tourism and societies need for technology. They have been referred to as anti-tourists. For many Backpacking is a right of passage in countries like Northern Europe, New Zealand, Israel, and Australia. (Richards, Greg; Julie Wilson 2004).…
When it comes to the topic of ecotourism, most of us will readily agree that it is a less harmful alternative to mass-tourism and that it promotes responsible and low-impact travel to areas where flora, fauna and cultural heritage are the primary drawing power. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of what the impact of ecotourism actually is and what its long-term consequences are. Whereas some are convinced that ecotourism provides the basis for sustainable development, particularly in places that suffer from exploitation and excessive resources’ usage, and that could only improve the general conditions of the local people, others maintain that we are still far from true ecotourism, for many are those in the tourism business who market as ecotourism what is actually nothing short of a green varnished conventional tourism. In order to gain a deeper understanding of this thorny issue it is fundamental to examine the experience of the countries that have, at least in theory, profusely embraced ecotourism, evaluating its natural and social impact on fragile environments, and the national cases of the Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica and Tanzania provide notable examples of how the success, or failure, of ecotourism is greatly determined by the extent to which national laws and development strategies are implemented.…
Sustainable Tourism is essentially an industry committed to making a low impact on the natural environment and local culture, while helping to generate income and employment for local people. As Global economists forecast continuing international tourism growth, this continuous growth will place great stress on remaining biologically diverse habitats and indigenous cultures, which are often used to support mass tourism. Therefore it is important that sustainable tourism is promoted and that people are educated about the opportunities provided in order to minimize the effects that tourism poses on the natural environment while helping to benefit local communities.…
One, they lack the required funding to jumpstart their business; obtaining this initial backing would require loans with interest fees and substantial risk. Additionally, Kay and Abdallah’s business model fails to account for an unsteady tourism market that could yield itself to provide their business with few to no backpackers. In fact, Oliver R. W. Pergams in his article “Evidence for a fundamental and pervasive shift away from nature-based recreation” asserts that the market for recreational tourism across the globe is steadily deteriorating (Pergams and Zaradic, 2008).…
Although ecotourism is quit a young discourse it is rapidly growing in popularity within the tourism branch. The general agreement that eco-tourism is "nature-based, sustainably managed, inclusive of social and cultural aspects, and educational to tourists" is one that appeals to a great number of tourists. However looking at it critically does ecotourism practices meet the terms of these assumptions?…
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Honey (1999) provides a recent, objective and comprehensive look at the realities of ecotourism and its place in a broader development strategy. Measuring ecotourism is difficult because it is often lumped together with nature, wildlife and adventure tourism. "Much of what is marketed as ecotourism is simply mass tourism wrapped in a thin green veneer" (Honey 1999: 51) a concept referred to "ecotourism lite." Acott and La Trobe (1998) refer to the same phenomenon as "shallow ecotourism." They provide a conceptual framework for measuring whether an ecotourism venture is a sincere attempt at sustainability and conservation or if it is simply an exploited term. Ecotourists and their impacts are measured on a continuum ranging from shallow ecotourism to deep ecotourism. Shallow ecotourism differs little from conventional tourism except in its marketing, and deep ecotourism is that in which decisions are made from a biocentric, not anthropogenic, nature. Deep ecotourism views nature as having an intrinsic value.…
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In United Nations eight Millennium goals to fight poverty, tourism is claimed to be one of the tools that could help to achieve that goal. Today tourist are going destinations that in few generations ago where unheard of. This essay is going to use Cambodia as an example of a developing country that has had an increase in tourism their latest year and arguable has benefit from it. The writer spend 10 months in Cambodia and worked with tourism and developing there so this essay is also including primary research.…
The term ethics originate from two Greek words, one of which means both “stable” and “living conditions” which demonstrates the fundamentally concrete, down to earth, meaning of the term. And also it finds its roots in another word which has the meaning of a way of living, a way of living in oneself in such a way as to orient one’s actions to live better, which shows us the formative force of this discipline on human thinking (Phaneuf, 2004). Ethics, according to Oxford dictionary can be understood as the moral values/standards that represent the behavioral pattern/attitude of a person (Oxford Dictionary, 2016). Ethics is the platform on which the concept and beliefs of good or evil, right or wrong are founded. It is usually formed from a religious and social platform. On the other hand, the concept of…
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Backpacking has been used by teenagers for a long time, and it has become really famous among young people who don’t have a lot of money for traveling. By backpacking people could save a lot of money and travel with less money than what they would need for paying a hotel. As the travelers will need to sleep in a hostel, there will always be the issue of insecurity, as any kind of people could enter and sleep in a hostel. Hostels are not always available as there are a lot of people who use them, so change of plans will always be a possibility in this way of traveling. People who rely on backpacking for their trips should always have a backup plan.…