ES295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Trans-Canada Highway, Ecotourism
17 Nov 2020
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Mass tourism hasn"t been rejected outright for 2 main reasons: economic, it provides a significant amount of foreign exchange for countries, socio-psychological, people like not having to make their own travel arrangements. Ecotourism: travel with a primary interest in the natural history of a destination. It is a form of nature-based tourism that places about nature first-hand emphasis on learning, sustain- ability (conservation and local participation/benefits), and ethical planning, development and management. Ecotours in canada revolved around the trans-canada highway, the government felt it was important for canadians to appreciate the human-land relationship in canada. Convergent evolution: where many places and people independently responded to the need for more nature travel opportunities in line with societies efforts to become more ecologically minded. Laarman and durst define it as, nature tourism in which the traveller is drawn to a destination because of his or her interest in one or more features of that destination"s natural history.
