Introduction
By definition Geotourism is “tourism that sustains, or even enhances, the geographical character of a place, such as its culture, environment, heritage, and the wellbeing of its residents”.
Geotourism brings out the uniqueness of a given geography such as good ecosystem, agriculture, beauty in nature and art, heritage for good of local people. It picks up the best and effective aspects of other tourists like agri, culinary, eco and Heritage Tourists. It includes collection of components to maintain strong tourism. Geotourism helps to make local economies stronger whereas minimizing unfavorable impact on local environment and culture. It provides an ability to measure and strengthens geographical character of local regions without impacting the natural resources, human and cultural resources. By securely maintaining these we create a best gift that given to future generations.
Geotourism is environmentally and culturally responsible and synergistic. It commits to maintain biodiversity, respecting locals and building
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A fourth element in Geotourism is that it incorporates the association of local groups and not just advantages the group and nature additionally enhances the quality of the traveler experience.
Geotourists
“Grant (2010) has suggested that there should be a spectrum of geo tourists from general ‘visitors’ who either have no or limited awareness of geological tourism, to ‘geo’ tourists who range from geo-amateurs, to geo-specialists to geo-experts.”
Geotourists are characterized; their fulfillment with the Geotourism experience is crucial to the long term suitability of the Geotourism industry. The significance of visitor’s well-being with respect to site visits. And, data provided about Geotourism opportunities had better to precisely speak to the open doors offered at specific Geotourism destinations.
The geotourists types
In many South American countries, there is a program in effect called Ecotourism. When the idea was initially though of, many of the developing countries of South America, had very poor economies as well as many suffering people. To act as a means of improving the status of these poor countries, the idea of Ecotourism was developed. In essence, Ecotourism is a program that permits tourists to visit and explore countries in South America while contributing their foreign capital to local economies. For the tourist, this is a great opportunity to see places of the world that have not been destroyed or inhabited by many. Though the idea of Ecotourism was one with good intentions, the local people in the countries where Ecotourism has been in effect are not gaining much at all. For this reason, I do not think that Ecotourism should be a continuing program in these countries. If the native people (whose best interest was at heart initially) are not benefiting from Ecotourism, then why has it been allowed to exist? The answer is simple: greed and selfishness.
Neth, B., 2008. Ecotourism as a Tool for Sustainable Rural Community Development and Natural Resources Management in the Tonle Sap Biosphere Researve. Kassel: Kassel University Press GmbH,
Hudman, L. E., & Jackson, R. H. (2003). Geography of travel & tourism. Clifton Park, NY: Thomson.
The article provides checklists to see whether or not it is ecotourism, with some key features being the companies relationship to the natives, if they act for convince or for nature, and if they are a certified ectourism company. The authors also talk of the consequences of ecotourism by exemplifying the Galapagos Islands boom in “ecotourism” as a negative impact that brought invasive plants, animals, and even pirates to the islands. They then point at the path to a solution for the Galapagos Islands through legislation, tour design and interpretation, and lessening their environmental impact. McElrath, Kolby. 17 February 2016.
One possible effect of geotourism in Alkhobar. Traders are doing the best thing to attract the largest number of visitors. They look for what the people like now, or what are their concerns. For example, if the weather good , people like stay outside. This is a great opportunity to traders to make a romantic and beautiful place outside with a good decoration and color . This thing
In this case Nepal and the environments resources, have shaped themselves into two geographic zones. One of these zones being the mountain regions and the other being the middle hills and terailplain. Tourists are usually close to the mountain destinations and thus the government pays close attention to the environment for the Development of tourism within this
Desire for more novel, adventurous, and authentic forms of tourism experience, social content and the humanization of tourism activities.
Global business is widely growing and increasing day by day, it has indeed manufactured benefits to both world and individual economy of a country. It plays a vital role to make it sustain in the long term profitability and also helps to improve interconnection between countries. Tourism business is however inter-related with world business and economy as it contributes a large amount of money exchange and also cuts the boundary of cultural and social backgrounds in other words the world has become local to everyone through tourism and globalization. Tourism in other words is a business which has grown globally and has become popular by marketing its products and aquatics every where around the world.
Tourism is often associated with traveling to places away from home. Tourism has a big impact on the economic growth of some countries, which define the shape of their cities by producing different sectors like historic districts, convention centers, museums, malls, hotels, restaurants, and the list can be endless. Furthermore, tourism elements have been developed by cities for a variety of reasons including: situating themselves in the world by drawing a positive image and attracting visitors and for their money.
Nowadays there are over 60 ecotourism centers where communities seek to gather money by using natural heritage. The money they get from ecotourism is reinvested in the communities, environment, culture and local needs. These projects have been successful in their environmental purposes. Before this projects started forests were being depleted and wildlife was being a threat and now there lots of efforts to protect the environment. It is prohibited to hunt animals and cut trees; this has lead to the
This essay is the respond to the Local Council Member who has wrong idea about a common archetype of adventure tourist. This misconception based on ignorance of current tourism industry, could potentially be a dangerous for local economy and development. The local authority must be well informed about present conditions with the tourism market, before they will make a far reaching decisions about the development direction in this industry. Currently, there are many organisations whose monitoring an international tourism business and this knowledge supposed to be good use for our common good.
There is not really a universally accepted definition of tourism. In 1994 the World Tourism Organization (WTO) revised its definition. It says the tourism comprises of 'the activities of persons travelli...
Belsoy, J. 2012, ‘Environmental Impacts of Tourism in Protected Areas’, Journal of Environmental and Earth Science, vol. 2, pp. 10.
The uncontrolled tourism increase is threatening many natural areas around the world.with the uncontrollable levels of tourism this can put great deal of pressure on an area, andthis could end up leading to negative environmental impacts on the air and the water quality, thevegetation,the soil.the wild life and the possible job opportunities.
Based on McIntosh and friends (1995) tourism is a phenomenon and relationship that exists due to interaction between tourist, businessman, government and community as the host in process attract tourist and foreign tourism. Indirectly, this definition clarified tourism is visit or travel to another place within yesterday, aimed amused, rested, traded and so on. In fact, there are four key that related in