ES295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ecotourism, Deep Learning
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Visits by persons outside the host community interested in the historical, artistic, or lifestyle. Spends and earns more money on vacation. More highly educated than the general public. The majority of cultural tourists seek cultural attractions on a recreational and pleasure basis, and not for deep learning. An outdoor leisure activity that takes place in an unusual, exotic, remote or wilderness destination, involves some form of unconventional means of transportation, and tends to be associated with low or high levels of activity". Weaver states that soft ecotourism outweighs hard ecotourism.