Abstract
This study aims at clarifying how the plunder of marine resources occurs in the Galapagos Islands, where recently, the plunder by local fishermen has become a big problem. It also tries to gain knowledge of what sustainable ecotourism should be like, for the benefit of future development of this type of tourism. The result from the questionnaire and interviews to the local and selected people show that, even though a large number of people immigrated to the Islands expecting to get a job in the tourism industry, in reality they only found the weak linkage between the tourism and the local, which does not supply them with much opportunity to work in the tourism industry. Thus, they had no choice but to become fishermen, which causes the plunder of marine resources. In contrast, other 3 sites chosen for comparison show the strong social and economical relationships between the sites and the locals and no signs of plunder. From this study, it is clear that in order to make ecotourism sustainable, it is essential not only to control the environment and nature strictly, but also to build strong social and economical linkage between the local and the tourism industry.
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