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PAs – Tourism activities relationship PAs Categories: Ia VI Tourism Activities: Non Consumptive consumptive PAs category PAs category/level of protection Wildlife watching • Prime wildlife habitat and prime tourist attraction largely overlaps. • Watching animals is an inspiring experience. People are excited by seeing whales or turtles, spectacular bird life, elephants or gorillas. • The Big Five"-lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant and rhino are the main tourists attraction in east African countries • Madagascar –baobabs trees, lemurs etc • Galapagos island - lizards/birds • Chitwan – Rhino/tiger • Rwanda - gorilla • Whale watching tours more than doubled between 1991 and 1998, and spent over a billion US dollars a year on this activity, benefiting 495 communities around the world from remote destinations to major tourism resorts such as the Canary Islands. • Over 95% of the visitors come to the Serengeti to watch wildlife. • More than 50% of the tourists visit PAs. Almost 100% go for elephant safari to see wild animals. • Gross worth of a Lion in Amboseli National Park, Kenya – US$ 27, 000/year • A elephant heard is estimated as worth as US$ 610, 000/year 20
Biodiversity and ecotourism in developing countries (source: Gossling, 1999) Hard reality • In terms of tourism benefits: developing countries – 20-40% of the total receipts Entrance fees amount to 0.01%–1% of the total travel costs. • In 1988 as much as 4–22% of these revenues were brought in by nature tourism • In case of Nepal major portion of the tourism receipt should come form natural areas. Useful devil • Many of the eco-tourists destinations are extremely sensitive to environmental impacts from human use. • The presence of people is seen to have an impact on the behavior of wildlife such as affecting reproductive success, feeding and social behaviors. • Tour boats are often used in iYucatan, Mexico have resulted in a decreased feeding time and increased alert behavior of flamingos. • Visitations to Megallanic penguins nesting sites are popular but result in changes in the penguin‟s behavior in both adults and chicks. causing lower hatching rates of eggs, increased abandonment of nests, and higher mortality rates . • When in the presence of tourists, animals abandon their nesting and feeding sites. • Habituation of the gorillas is fundamental to ecotourism so that they may be safely observed by tourists also may have loss of gorilla in poaching due to the losing the instinct to flee from poachers or soldiers. Losing their survival skills places these animals at risk for extinction. • One-homed Rhinoceros and sambar are becoming habituated to tourist activity in high tourist use areas. 21
Page 1 and 2: Ecotourism Resource Person: Shreeka
Page 3 and 4: Tourism Products & Activities Na
Page 5 and 6: General Requirements for Eco touris
Page 7 and 8: • Annapurna in June 1950 & Mt. Ev
Page 9 and 10: • Man is only perceived as the us
Page 11 and 12: • Harmony - Leopold, • Spiritua
Page 13 and 14: The evolving role of protected area
Page 15 and 16: • Key stakeholders: Government/pr
Page 17 and 18: Unit 2: Ecotourism Policy, Organiza
Page 22 and 23: The median flush distance and the s
Page 24 and 25: Ecotourism enthusiasts are mostly p
Page 26 and 27: 6. Views human resource management
Page 28 and 29: 12. Remove barriers. It is the prin
Page 30 and 31: • Leisure activities : goods, fac
Page 32 and 33: Socio-economic Impact of Tourism
Page 34 and 35: • Responsible travel to natural a
Page 36 and 37: Service Marketing Mix Marketing Mix
Page 38 and 39: Ecotourism Management and Developme
Page 40 and 41: • Eco-labels may focus on certain
Page 42 and 43: • A strong consensus has develope
Page 44 and 45: Many stakeholders have interests in
Page 46 and 47: • Benefit to local community •
Page 48 and 49: • It provides a first-hand encoun
Page 50 and 51: 6.2 Sustainable tourism development
Page 52 and 53: • Taking a stroll through a rainf
Page 54: • Devolution and decentralization

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