Implementation Of Ecotourism Research Articles

Conflicting Cultures of Nature: Ecotourism, Education and the Kayapó of the Brazilian Amazon

Despite advancements in the design and implementation of ecotourism, the educational component of ecotourism has received little attention in comparison to ecological, economic and other social factors. This article discusses the unexplored conventions of education as a form of empowerment in ecotourism through the case study of a pilot ecotourism project co-managed by an ecologist, an anthropologist and a Kayapó indigenous community in Brazil. Designed as a university-level study-abroad course that holistically incorporates both a conservation biology perspective and local systems of knowledge, the pilot project provides an opportunity to consider the interdependence among the ecological, economic, educational and social consequences of one ecotourism experience, as well as to glean broader insights into the role of education in ecotourism. In particular, the intention is to look beneath the surface of assumptions about the meaning of education, asking: (1) who or what may be considered a legitimate source of information?; (2) what information is considered ‘educational’ in the ecotourism experience?; (3) to whom is education aimed (who are the learning targets)?; and (4) what are the objectives of education in the context of ecotourism? Based on the analysis, certain recommendations are made for reconsidering the values and goals of the endeavour.

Conservation narratives and the ''received wisdom'' of ecotourism: case studies from Costa Rica

Ecotourism can be considered to be the dictated solution of a conservation counter-narrative that calls for both sustainable use of wildlife and community-based conservation. This paper addresses the promotion of ecotourism by a specific group of wildlife conservation experts, and the implementation of ecotourism as a conservation strategy at three case-study sites in rural Costa Rica. In 1995, in-depth interviews were undertaken with 42 conservation experts and with 12 key informants at the case-study sites. Findings suggest that conservation experts promote ecotourism because it is preferable to more consumptive uses of wildlife, and because it allows experts to repeat the language of the counter-narrative, while continuing to implement traditional conservation solutions, i.e. establishment of parks and protected areas.

Think global act local? Negotiating sustainable development under postcommunist transformation

These essays are offered as a contribution to the ongoing scholarly discourse concerned with environmental problems in East Central Europe (ECE). In this volume we concentrate on the local through papers that indicate the nature of environmental challenges and ways in which progress is being made not merely by legislation but by negotiating sustainability in a range of local situations. Written by social scientists, largely geographers and anthropologists, from Western Europe as well as ECE and North America these essays provide ethnographically-detailed case studies of local environmental transformations in eight different countries. The emphasis on locality studies unites all the authors who, in different ways, develop the central idea that the macrosociological oversimplifications of the 1980s and 1990s can only be countered, and indeed corrected, through careful consideration of the diversity of local realities. All the case studies are concerned with the environmental dimensions of postcommunist transformations, whether that be through pollution abatement, restructuring over rights to natural resources such as forests or the implementation of ecotourism as a local redevelopment strategy. Sustainable development is therefore a leitmotif of this collection and most of the papers offer empirically-grounded critique of the concept insofar as it has permeated debates about local development in the postcommunist world.

Ecotourism in Southeast Asia

A second international ecotourism conference focusing on Southeast Asia was held in Bangkok, Thailand, 18–21 July 1996. Entitled ‘The Implementation of Ecotourism: Planning, Developing and Managing for Sustainability’, it was hosted by the Institute of Ecotourism, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok in cooperation with the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and The Department of Technical and Economic Cooperation (DTEC).

Studi Potensi Kawasan Subak Sebagai Ekowisata di Desa Belimbing Kecamatan Pupuan Kabupaten Tabanan

ABSTRACT
 Potential Study of Subak Area for Ecotourism in Belimbing Village, Pupuan District, Tabanan Regency 
 
 Tabanan regency is the highest rice producing regency in Bali. The suvvess in agricultural production is inseparable from Subak organization existency. This past few years, Tabanan experiencing an increase land conversion. It becomes a threat to the existence of Subak. Developing ecotourism in Subak area is an effort to reduce numbers of land conversion and Subak degradation. Belimbing village has a potential to be developed as ecotourism. The potential identification in Subak area of the village shows there are some Subak values as well as environment potentials that can be developed as area for ecotourism. The beautiful landscape of rice field terrace, Tri Hita Karana (THK) based agricultural and local community social cultured activities are potential for tourist attraction. However, there is a need to educate the local people in order to support the implementation of ecotourism in Subak area of Belimbing village. By developing Subak area as ecotourism, it is expected to improve the welfare of the local people, especially former and Subak organization also preserve the environment as well.
 
 Keywords: ecotourism, identification of potential, subak areas