Ecotourism

Author: Lu Yunping
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Publish Date: 2001-05-01
Features: Ecotourism is a discipline that studies the laws of ecotourism activities and ecological environmental ethics. It is an interdisciplinary field that lies between ecology and tourism. Ecotourism, guided by ecological perspectives and the concept of sustainable development, takes natural ecological environments and related cultural areas as its settings. It is a form of tourism that involves experiencing, understanding, recognizing, appreciating, and studying nature and culture while carrying a genuine responsibility for environmental protection. It is a type of specialized natural tourism. Based on the above viewpoints, this book outlines the research structure and content of ecotourism.