Ecotourism, to be successful, must promote sustainable development by establishing a durable productive base that allows local inhabitants and ecotourist service providers to enjoy rising standards of living. An ecotourist project must incorporate the social dimensions of productive organization and environmental conservation. Based on the experience of the overwintering reserves of the Monarch...

available online at http://meteoritics.org The Lake Bosumtwi impact structure in Ghana: A brief environmental assessment and discussion of ecotourism potential Daniel BOAMAH1, 2 and Christian KOEBERL1* 1Department of Geological Sciences, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria 2Geological Survey Department, P.O. Box M80, Accra, Ghana *Corresponding author. E-mail: christi...

The paper examines issues pertinent to the strategic planning and management of ecotourism. The use ofMulti-CriteriaAnalysis in ecotourism is an innovative application of an existingmethodology that has been traditionally employed in environmental planning and project appraisal to address conflicting stakeholder objectives over scarce natural resources. Using data from a case study of community...

Is ecotourism merely a novel ‘saleable’ label for what travelers and their agents have been doing all along? Or is it “a new alternative for sharing cultures and ecosystems based on. . noble objectives” [18]? As an arena in which “corporate tenets and conservationist ideals are interwoven’ [47], ecotourism may continue to elude concrete definition. However, analysis of the benefits and costs of...

Independently owned nature reserves are proliferating across the developing world. Nevertheless, the conservation community knows practically nothing about them. This paper examines the economic, ecological, and social impacts of ecotourism, as evidenced at thirty-two of these reserves. Ecotourism is shown to be the primary means through which reserves survive financially. This reliance provide...

a r t i c l e i n f o Recreation and wildlife observations occur often in hiking trails. In terms of recreation planning, few studies have combined ecological and cultural features to assess ecotourism potential of hiking trails. Seasonality has been also neglected in tourism research. In order to disperse tourists over the year and alleviate the negative impacts of mass tourism events, we prop...