The Relationship between Tourism Policy and Sustainable Life-style

Abstract

Since the rapid development of industry and technology, Human lifestyle has been dramatic change, and with the natural environment, sustainable survival will almost certainly be sidelined, they are on the brink of collapse in spirit and physically for a long time due to busyness. Obviously, human lifestyle is to eventually return to the natural environment for sustainable survival, that is “ Sustainable Living “ for the basic concept. Sustainable life is a goal to continuously pursuit for human, in addition to life back in the natural environment, but also to re-understanding this island that gestate the development of human civilization. This kind of lifestyle for returning to the natural environment response to tourist-oriented, The Eco-tourism Society and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) all have proposed the tourism policy concept of communal development of the natural environment and recreational activities. (or “ Ecotourism “,”Eco-tourism”). The concept is identical to tourism policy planning that was proposed by Taiwan Tourism Bureau from 2002 to 2011. They plan to construct multidimensional tourist environment and develop tourism activities of local, ecological diversity, and ultimately to make Taiwan into a sustainable tourism “green silicon island”.