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1.5 Role of Ethics in ecotourism
Successful ecotourism
• Conservationists should understand business
• Tourism entrepreneurs should understand conservation
• At the moment we are doing nature based tourism or tourism in natural areas.
• It is an ideal component of a sustainable development strategy where natural resources can be
utilized as tourism attractions without causing harm to the natural area.
• Tourism to protected areas has continued to grow at a rapid rate.
• To ensure that the increasing pressure from tourism does not threaten the long-term health of
these precious areas, more than ever it is important that tourism development for protected areas
occur within the context of conservation management.
• The core elements of environmental problems such as man's relationship with his natural
surroundings are largely of an ethical and emotional nature.
Ethical issues in ecotourism
• In many cases the non human members of our ecological community that are the hardest hit by
tourism
• Activities of the people are largely normative which collectively direct the actions of
communities, cultures, societies and the planet.
• Ethic – theoretical and applied
• Applied – environmental ethic and tourism ethic
• Not only Compassion to nature but there is compulsion also
• Ethic and emotions – compassion and knowledge - Buddha‟s eye
• Heart less head and head less heart
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