October 15, 2015
Ms. Goodrich
Ecotourism is defined as traveling responsibility to organic areas to protect the environment. Ecotourism is about conservation and sustainable travel. By following ecotourism guidelines, people should build cultural and environmental awareness. Ecotourism is about protecting the environment such as rain forests, islands and our oceans. The islands such as the Galapagos islands are very important to keep protected because of all the species on the islands. Trash should not be thrown on the beaches or along roadsides. If animals are in captivity they should be treated well and have clean environments where they can feel safe. Another example of Ecotourism being affected is the boats in the oceans. The boats put a lot of gasoline into the oceans and it effects the marine life by putting toxins and poisons into the oceans killing marine animals. The ocean spills from ships is causing the same problem as gasoline. Ecotourism is important because it helps to keep the world cleaner and a better place.
- Minimize physical, social, behavioral, and psychological impacts.
- Build environmental and cultural awareness and respect.
- Provide positive experiences for both visitors and hosts.
- Provide direct financial benefits for conservation.
- Generate financial benefits for both local people and private industry.
- Deliver memorable interpretative experiences to visitors that help raise sensitivity to host countries' political, environmental, and social climates.
- Design, construct and operate low-impact facilities.
- Recognize the rights and spiritual beliefs of the Indigenous People in your community and work in partnership with them to create empowerment.
The "green washing" ecosystem tours are environmental tours that do not give a lot of information on conservation as well as how to protect the environment. For example, the article I read talks about Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida. The animals that live in the park are not safe and live in a fake environment, of fake trees and plants. The tour guides never give enough information on the animals and how they are treated in closed environments.
The benefits of ecotourism is helping people to understand conservation and how to be environmentally friendly. The USAID ( United States Agency for International Development) is helping to make sure all the animals environments are safe to live in. Ecotourism is a big part of human life because, humans go to the zoo and into the ocean as well as islands and private areas. Ecotourism is important because these tours are very good and have importance to them. they help visitors to understand better about conservation and the environments of the animals. Benefits of ecotourism is helping teach visitors everything about a certain species. The role of USAID is to help support the national parks and giving new supplies and trained staff. They make sure that the staff members know how to take care of the animals and how the should be treated. The USAID wants whats best for the national parks and tries to make all of the visitors welcome, but at the same time make sure the visitors learn something. The number one responsibility of a tour guide it make sure the animals are treated with respect by them as well as the visitors.
A good agency should have trained tour guides. They should be bale to describe everything about conservation of the animals as well as how the animals are treated. A green washing company can be noticed if the company if the tours seem to not be planed out. The animals environments can sometimes be dirty and to small for the specific species. To be environmentally friendly a tour should have barriers along the sides of the trail that the cars go through. This is so the animals can be protected from being run over of injured. tour guides should make sure that they environments are safe and clean for the animals so that they feel they are being cared for. Making sure the wildlife has big areas of land will help them to feel more like wild animals and not caged up. Tour guides should explain to visitors how they help the environments if they do and they should say if their animals are either taken from the wild or where born in captivity. Telling people that the animals are being taken care of tell them that its an Eco friendly agency.
Ecotourism is important because, it helps people to understand how many different wildlife companies there are and how they treat the animals within the parks. For example Disney's Animal Kingdom, Sea world, Busch Gardens, Zoo's and Aquariums. They all have different animals and they treat them all differently and have different views of ecotourism. Animal Kingdom for example has killed a few of its animals with the safari cars they are considered a green washing company because they do not have safe enclosures. Busch Gardens is environmentally friendly company because the animals have acres of land to run around. They have the freedom too be free. There are also tracks that the cars stay on that have barriers so that the animals can not be hurt. Many common Zoo's are green washing companies because they are dirty and the enclosures of the animals is far to small for each species. Other tours that are Eco friendly are whale watches and helping clean beaches. Some green washing tours that are horrible is air travel and car travel through certain wildlife areas.
"Disney spent $800 million dollars to transform 500 acres of central Florida cow pasture into an African savanna, with fake wide-trunk Baobab Trees, a Zulu village and some one thousand real imported animals. This largest of Disney's theme parks is designed to let the American public "go on safari" without leaving the shores of the United States. Although it has won praise from zoo-industry officials, Animal Kingdom opened in mid 1988 amidst protests from animal rights groups and an investigation by the US Department of Agriculture into the deaths of some dozen animals, including representatives of endangered species. Two West African Crowned Cranes were run over by tour vehicles." - Greenwashing Travel: Different Shades of Green.Green washing tours are always displayed as very good and environmentally friendly. Ecotourism is controlled by travel agents, tour operators, airlines, cruise lines, large hotels and hotel chains. Each of these bring a different effect to the environment. They all affect the animals both on land and Marine life. The green washing tour guides and the companies do not try to help, they do not say what they want should be and do not explain all the information about the animals and the conservation. They make up information to make it seem like the animals are in good hands.
The benefits of ecotourism is helping people to understand conservation and how to be environmentally friendly. The USAID ( United States Agency for International Development) is helping to make sure all the animals environments are safe to live in. Ecotourism is a big part of human life because, humans go to the zoo and into the ocean as well as islands and private areas. Ecotourism is important because these tours are very good and have importance to them. they help visitors to understand better about conservation and the environments of the animals. Benefits of ecotourism is helping teach visitors everything about a certain species. The role of USAID is to help support the national parks and giving new supplies and trained staff. They make sure that the staff members know how to take care of the animals and how the should be treated. The USAID wants whats best for the national parks and tries to make all of the visitors welcome, but at the same time make sure the visitors learn something. The number one responsibility of a tour guide it make sure the animals are treated with respect by them as well as the visitors.
A good agency should have trained tour guides. They should be bale to describe everything about conservation of the animals as well as how the animals are treated. A green washing company can be noticed if the company if the tours seem to not be planed out. The animals environments can sometimes be dirty and to small for the specific species. To be environmentally friendly a tour should have barriers along the sides of the trail that the cars go through. This is so the animals can be protected from being run over of injured. tour guides should make sure that they environments are safe and clean for the animals so that they feel they are being cared for. Making sure the wildlife has big areas of land will help them to feel more like wild animals and not caged up. Tour guides should explain to visitors how they help the environments if they do and they should say if their animals are either taken from the wild or where born in captivity. Telling people that the animals are being taken care of tell them that its an Eco friendly agency.
Ecotourism is important because, it helps people to understand how many different wildlife companies there are and how they treat the animals within the parks. For example Disney's Animal Kingdom, Sea world, Busch Gardens, Zoo's and Aquariums. They all have different animals and they treat them all differently and have different views of ecotourism. Animal Kingdom for example has killed a few of its animals with the safari cars they are considered a green washing company because they do not have safe enclosures. Busch Gardens is environmentally friendly company because the animals have acres of land to run around. They have the freedom too be free. There are also tracks that the cars stay on that have barriers so that the animals can not be hurt. Many common Zoo's are green washing companies because they are dirty and the enclosures of the animals is far to small for each species. Other tours that are Eco friendly are whale watches and helping clean beaches. Some green washing tours that are horrible is air travel and car travel through certain wildlife areas.
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