Ecotourism is a major driver of tourism in rural, usually remote peripheral regions several African countries including South Africa. The aim this paper to examine the planning and establishment challenges which surround development an urban ecotourism project research focuses on Dinokeng Game Reserve geographically located boundary one Africa’s metropolitan areas situated country’s economic he...

Previous studies have explored community participation in ecotourism. However, only a few addressed indigenous people concerning their ecotourism development, specifically within the context of national park. Therefore, this study examined how and why are participating development by taking case village Bukit Tigapuluh National Park, Indonesia. This collected data through semi-structured interv...

The rich natural resources and multi-ethnic cultural characteristics of the third pole region have created a good foundation for its development ecotourism. However, sustainable Pole ecotourism still needs to be explored on basis environmental carrying capacity assessment. Starting from perspective tourism capacity, this paper takes pillar as research area, adopts methods desktop research, surv...

Although mangroves dominated by Avicennia germinans and Rhizophora mangle are extending over 6000 ha in the Tanbi Wetland National Park (TWNP) (The Gambia), their importance for local populations (both peri-urban and urban) is not well documented. For the first time, this study evaluates the different mangrove resources in and around Banjul (i.e., timber, non-timber, edible, and ethnomedicinal ...

Tourist satisfaction, as a principal element for sustainable development of wetland ecotourism and destination competitiveness, has received extensive attention in the research on its impact behavioral intention. This paper employs choice experiment to study tourist satisfaction an important motivation intention willingness pay preference improvement policy, explores potential causal mechanism....

This research aims to (1) analyze the pattern of ecotourism management in Gili Lawang based on concept CBT (Community tourism) according Demartoto (2009) and (2) supporting inhibiting factors that affect involvement ofcommunity managing ecotourism. The was located area, Sugian Village, Sambelia, East Lombok Regency. used descriptive qualitative method, by using literature reviews data collectio...