Impacts, Potentials and Possibilities
This book highlighted the complexity of using ecotourism as a tool for conservation and sustainable development. The explosion of interest in ecotourism as a funding source for conserving both biodiversity and cultural patrimony and as a strategy for generating socio-economic development has seen a mechanism for a movement of the tourism industry to become more aligned to the sustainable development models that underpin ecotourism. And with demand for ecotourism steadily increasing , a trend that can be expected to continue its influence on tourism industry and communities can only continue to promote sustainable models of development.