ES295 Lecture Notes - Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Native Hawaiians, Ecotourism
Document Summary
Focus is on direct and indirect costs and benefits socioculturally. Ideally ecotourism should facilitate the wellbeing and satisfaction of visitors. Direct benefits (5. 2. 1: generates revenue and employment. Ecotourism involved visitor expenditures and the creation of employment specific to that sector. Great barrier reef in australia is more interested in bringing in revenue from outside the country than circulating it through australia (no new net wealth this way) Ecotourism related employment can have a major positive effect on small communities even if the number of jobs appears to be small from the perspective of a large destination: economic opportunities for peripheral regions. In economically depressed destinations, such as tasmania, where the traditional mainstays of logging and mining are declining due to resource depletion, depressed commodity prices and pressure from the environmental lobby, ecotourism is being promoted as a viable development alternative. Indirect benefits (5. 2. 2: high multiplier effect and indirect revenue and employment.
