The issues and problem
- The lack of opportunities for involvement in decision – making relating to ecotourism
- Inadequate responses from government when administrative or legislative mechanisms have been established to involve them in such decision-making
- The lack of financial , social and vocational benefits flowing to these communities from project that commercially exploit what they regard as their resource
- The need to establish better tools for evaluating socio-cultural impacts and ensuring this is completed over the more emphasized environment impact on the nature environments which are usually of more interest to the outside investors and conversation groups.
- Impact on community cohesion and structure.
- The rapidity of tourism development that many cases significantly accelerates social change.