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A3
Treading lightly in the great outdoors
Exercise 3 - A free holiday!
Imagine you and your family have won a free holiday to a destination of your choice in Australia.
You want to convince your family to have a genuine environmentally friendly holiday.
a) Identify accredited ecological holiday suppliers.
– Type ‘ecotourism Australia’ into a web search engine.
– Using the following descriptions, how many of the first ten found are:
Ecotourism - nature holidays involving wildlife watching?
Ecotourism - holidays where measures have been taken to reduce your impact on the
local environment and increase integration with the local community?
b) Visit the Eco Tourism Australia website
www.ecotourism.org.au and identify the
logo used to indicate ecotourism holidays
within Australia and internationally.
Create a logo that could be used to
identify ecotourism holidays in Victoria
or your local area.
c) Continue your research and select your preferred holiday destination.
Explain your choice in the table below.
Our destination will be
Why I chose this destination
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d) Create a poster or webpage to explain to the general public the benefits of the ecotourism
accreditation scheme and the importance of ecotourism.
consumer affairs victoria
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Insert images which support your reasons
The impact of our holiday on the environment will be...
Positive impact Negative impact
(include travel to and from the destination)
To reduce the negative impact we could....
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