An evaluation of ecotourism in Amazonas, Brazil |
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Authors: | George N Wallace Susan M Pierce |
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Institution: | aAssociate Professor in the Department of Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism, Colorado State University Ft Collins CO 80523, USA;bEnvironmental consultant with an M.S. in Natural Resource Management from Colorado State University USA |
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Abstract: | Registered “ecotour” lodges were studied using observation and interviews with visitors, employees, and local people. Findings were evaluated using proposed ecotourism principles. Besides providing employment, lodges improve access, stimulate new services (health utilities, etc.), and make valued but limited local purchases. In other ways, lodges fall short of the ideals inherent in the principles. They contribute little to conservation education, resource protection, or the involvement and empowerment of local people. Tourists wish to see and would support conservation and community development programs both financially and via their future selection of ecotour operators. Numerous implications for concessions, protected area management, and rural development in Amazonas are discussed. |
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Keywords: | ecotourism protected area management local participation rural development |
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