Abstract

Ecological environment is the material base of the development of ecotourism. The ecotourism cannot develop well without high quality ecotourism environment. The goal of ecotourism development is to protect ecological environment, which is also the essential characteristic of ecotourism different from other kind of tourism. This paper tries to discuss the community participation in environmental management of ecotourism, aims to improve the awareness of participation and environmental protection among community residents and, to establish the mechanism of community participation in environmental management of ecotourism. In this way, can the community residents be benefit from ecotourism; and at the same time, the communities provide strong motive to protect the resources and environment of ecotourism well.

Highlights

  • Ecotourism is sustainable tourism, which is based on the ecological principle and sustainable development theory

  • Ecotourism is very popular to travelers for its bases that emphasize on natural ecological environment and pay attention to ecological environment protection

  • We can maximally follow the natural law of biodiversity, and fully embody the harmonies and unified ecological relationship between man and nature, and put an end to short-term economic activities, and seek for the unity coordinated with economics, society and ecology, and at last maintain the sustainable development of the resources and environment of tourism

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Summary

Introduction

Ecotourism is sustainable tourism, which is based on the ecological principle and sustainable development theory. Ecotourism is very popular to travelers for its bases that emphasize on natural ecological environment and pay attention to ecological environment protection. Depending on natural landscape superiority, the forest parks and nature reserves regard ecotourism as pillar industry of sustainable utilization of resources. The development of ecotourism has brought economic interests to tourism destination, it has caused great influences to local ecological environment, such as too many artificial sceneries, the influx of tourists and tourism transport facilities in short time, more and more waste of water, gas and residue discharged by industry and so on. According to related organizations investigation on 100 nature reserves above the provincial level, there has been 22 percent of nature reserves causing environment destruction because of ecotourism development, and 11 percent of them appearing tourism resources degradation. Well how to promote ecotourism to develop healthy and coordinate is a new subject to us all

The essence and connotation of ecotourism
Ecological environment is the foundation of ecotourism
Ecological environment protection is the goal of ecotourism
Community participation is the important character of ecotourism
Measures of community participation in environmental management of ecotourism
Let the community residents share the benefits brought by ecotourism
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Conclusions

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