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Ecotourism

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Ecotourism
Tourism structured in a way that causes the least damage or has the least impact on the area visited. It may also involve visiting places of ecological interest. Ecotourism is considered sustainable and can be beneficial for the local economy.


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Thanks to idealistic people like Dagmar Schreiber, ecotourism is slowly becoming more popular, but it will likely take another 20 years to see any noticeable changes in the rural areas.
The growth of sport hunting tourism will give Uganda a bad name as an ecotourism destination and is thus likely to reduce earnings from ecotourism including gorilla tracking," he added.
The workshop seeks to develop programs for protecting sea creatures in a way that supports ecotourism and ecological balance, detecting reasons behind the decline in turtle numbers due to overfishing in addition to the inefficient measures adopted to protect them.
 
 
 
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