生态旅游发展概述

健康、阳光、环保的生态旅游成为当今世界旅游业发展的热点,据估算,全球生态旅游年均增长率约为20%²5%,是旅游产品中增长最快的部分。世界各地生态旅游资源丰富,但生态旅游发展不平衡,欧洲发展最好,其他区域发展各异。我国的生态旅游实践已有20多年,主要是依托于森林公园、自然保护区、风景名胜区、水利风景区、地质公园、湿地公园等发展起来的。生态旅游产业体系逐步健全,旅游教育尤其是森林旅游教育发展异常迅速,科学研究成果丰厚。

Ecological Tourism Development Overview

Healthy, sunny and environmental-friendly ecological tourism has become a hot spot for the development of the today＇s world tourism; it has been estimated that the average annual growth rate of the global ecological tourism is about 20% - 25%, which is the part enjoying the fastest growth among the tourism products. The ecological tourism resources are rich around the world, but ecological tourism is facing unbalanced development with the best develop- ment in Europe while different degrees in other regions. The ecological tourism practice in China has gone through more than twenty years, which has been developed mainly relying on the forest parks, nature reserves, scenic areas, water recreation areas, geological parks, wetland parks, etc. The ecological tourism industry system has been gradually improved and the tourism education, especially the forest tourism education, has obtained an exceptionally rapid develop- ment with abundant scientific research results achieved.