Wae Bobok is a forest area in Tanjung Boleng Village, West Manggarai Regency, that used as rest for local people who drive between districts well an ecotourism destination. Not only variety of special culinary, offers number attractions surrounding area, such view point, spring, waterfall, outbond and camping site. Interpretive media one aspect needs to be developed order improve the quality de...

Ecological and environmental protection is the core content of ecotourism development. A quantitative evaluation of the effects of ecotourism environmental protection (hereinafter referred to as EEP) measures on protected areas is conducive to a deeper understanding of the key issues related to ecotourism development in China, thus providing the theoretical basis for formulating the relevant na...

5 Chapter I: Introduction 6 Arrival 6 Thesis Outline 8 Chapter II: Geology, Geography, and History 12 Geology and Geography 12 History 13 i. Pre-Settlement 13 ii. Settlement 16 iii. Darwin’s Visit 19 iv. Modern History 22 Chapter III: The Anthropology of Tourism 25 Introduction 25 History and Notable Works 25 Theory 31 Themes 33 Chapter IV: Costa Rica and Ecotourism 35 Why Costa Rica? 35 Implem...

This research note considers ways in which we may better understand how ecotourism ventures impact on the lives of people living in, and around, the environments which ecotourists frequent. From a development perspective, ecotourism ventures should only be considered ‘successful’ if local communities have some measure of control over them and if they share equitably in the benefits emerging fro...

Ecotourism has arisen as a popular strategy for merging the interests of environmental conservation and development. One way of analyzing ecotourism is to consider how this linkage between environment and development is constructed in various environmental discourses to promote ecological, economic, and/or human interests. Although a variety of definitions and discursive models of ecotourism ar...