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Definition: Ecotourism |
EcotourismNoun1. Tourism to exotic or threatened ecosystems to observe wildlife or to help preserve nature. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: EcotourismSynonyms: Ecological tourism, Environmental tourism, Sustainable tourism. (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Tourism being one of the sectors which knows the strongest rate of development in the world, ecotourism represents a very powerful means to develop the biodiversity. It consists of ecological tourism whose principal objective is in benefitting from nature, landscapes or specific species (e.g. lions or elephants in Kenya, watching whales). Tourism industry defines it as being environmental responsible travel to relatively undisturbed areas, to enjoy and appreciate nature and accompanying cultural features and help to make become aware of the need for preserving natural capital and cultural capital,. Ecotourism should have low visitor impact and should contribute to the well-being of local populations.
Basically, the definition of eco-tourism includes involving in appreciation, conservation, admiration, enjoyment, benefiting to the cultures of the locals, preservation, protection as well as education, and it should be a non-exploitative kind of nature tourism. That is quoted from the source of various authors.
The relationships between ecotourism and conservation, sustainability and biodiversity meets the favours of many international organizations.
It must satisfy several criteria, such as
Some are not convinced by the rather flexible definition of ecotourism. They estimate that the ecotourism often consists in placing a hotel in a splendid landscape, to the detriment of the ecosystem. According to them, the ecotourism must above all sensitize people with the beauty and the fragility of nature. Thus, some operators do not hesitate to use 4x4, swimming pools and air conditioning more than fauna and the flora. This kind of activity is called green washing by professionals, and hides conventional mass-tourism of mass presented as "green".
The United States are the principal tank of ecotourists (more than 5 million people each year). The majority of the other ecotourists comes from Europe and the elite of some southern countries.
See also: Convention on Biological Diversity, List of Conservation topics, ecoregion
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ecotourism."
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Mexico | Sonora has also been developing the tourism industry, capitalizing on its beaches and ecotourism. (references) |
Suriname | U.S. experts have worked closely with local natural resource officials to encourage sustainable development of the interior and alternatives such as ecotourism. (references) | |
Kenya | There also are opportunities in ecotourism, which is underdeveloped but is gaining considerable support from environmentalists, the government and the industry in general. (references) | |
Political Economy | Zimbabwe | The country has abundant arable land, minerals, good but deteriorating infrastructure, an educated and disciplined work force, and an ecotourism sector. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ecotourism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ecotourism" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ecotourism | 1,502 |
ecotourism alaska | 29 |
costa rica ecotourism | 15 |
ecotourism vacation | 12 |
ecotourism new zealand | 6 |
ecotourism caribbean | 6 |
development ecotourism | 6 |
basics ecotourism | 6 |
ecotourism society | 5 |
activity ecotourism | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ecotourism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | ecotourismay.(various references) | |
Spanish | ecoturismo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ecotourism": ecotourisms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-m-o-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: costumier. | |
-2 letters: citreous, costumer, customer, misroute, moisture, mooriest, mortices, motorise, outcomes, outcries, outscore, roomiest, timorous. | |
-3 letters: ceriums, citrous, cooters, cooties, cormous, costume, couters, curites, erotics, erotism, icterus, metrics, moister, mooters, mortice, mortise, motoric, mousier, murices, mustier, octrois, oestrum, osmotic, outcome, rectums, riotous, roomies, scooter, scouter, scrotum, sootier, stourie, timeous, tourism, trisome. | |
-4 letters: cerium, cerous, cesium, cestoi, citers, citrus, coitus, comers, comets, comose, comous, comtes, cooers, cooter, cootie, corium, corset, cosier, coster, course, courts, couter, crimes, crouse, cruets, cruise, cruset, curets, curies, curios, curite, custom, cuties, erotic, eructs, escort, estrum, isomer, iterum, merits, metric, metros, micros, miscue, miscut, mister, miters, mitres, moires, mooter, morose, motors, mouser, mucors, mucose, mucros, muster, octroi, ostium, otiose, ouster, outers, rectos, rectum, rectus, recuts, remits, rictus, rimose, rimous, romeos, roomie, roscoe, routes, rustic, scoter, sector, sitcom, smiter, somite, sortie, source, souter, steric, stoure, suiter, suitor, timers, tories, torose, torous, trices, triose, truces, truism, tumors, uremic, uretic. | |
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| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-m-o-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: coterminous, ecotourisms. | |
+2 letters: conterminous, coulometries, mucoproteins. | |
+3 letters: autoeroticism, coterminously, precombustion, semiconductor. | |
+4 letters: autoeroticisms, commensuration, conterminously, microcomputers, multiprocessor, precombustions, recomputations, semiconductors, unconformities. | |
+5 letters: commensurations, computerphobias, countermelodies, cytomegalovirus, echinodermatous, excommunicators, intercommunions, macroevolutions, microevolutions, multiprocessors, overconsumption, pronunciamentos, thermojunctions, ultramicroscope, ultramicrotomes. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100011 01101111 01110100 01101111 01110101 01110010 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E c o t o u r i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0063 006F 0074 006F 0075 0072 0069 0073 006D |
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