Ecotourism operations which provide food to large predators have the potential to negatively affect their target species, by conditioning them to associate humans with food, or by generally altering their behavioural patterns. This latter effect could have potentially detrimental consequences for the ecosystem inhabited by the predator, because any behavioural changes could affect the species w...

Community involvement is emerging as a key element of both sustainable tourism and ecotourism. Community involvement in decision-making and residents’ receipt of benefits from tourism is expected to play a vital role in sustainable tourism as well as preservation and conservation of biodiversity. Local communities living in the forest areas of Dandeli suffered a great neglect economically in th...

inappropriate patterns and drastic changes in land-use have caused the severe environmental crisis. therefore, it is necessary to accomplish any plan in relation to establishment of different activities with respect to land capabilities and land-use evaluation thought. in this study, ecological capabilities and the site selection of land uses in babolrood basin, mazandaran province were evaluat...

Thousand Islands has become the main focus of marine tourism development in Special Capitol Region Jakarta (DKI Jakarta). In this regard, one objects proposed to be further developed is historical shipwreck diving as a new ecotourism attraction Islands. The sites shipwrecks that are widely scattered underwater expected give added value beauty panorama because most have been covered with coral r...

Geohazards are often portrayed as a calamity that has detrimental effect on humans and the environment. It is usually uncommon to consider geohazards in opposite context. Therefore, this study examines positive effects of an earthquake event centered Ranau, Sabah, especially from aspect ecotourism development. A total 27 homestay entrepreneurs Kampung Melangkap were interviewed study. The raw d...

In-water viewing of sharks by tourists has become a popular and lucrative industry. There is some concern that interactions with tourists with ecotourism operations might harm sharks through disruption of behaviours. Here, we analysed five years of whale shark (Rhincodon typus) encounter data by an ecotourism industry at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia, to assess the impact of ecotourism inter...