Social Studies: Eco-Tourism

 Today in Social Studies, we were set another task to complete which is about Eco-Tourism. We need to write three paragraphs answering these three questions. I hope you enjoy this post.

- What is Eco-Tourism?

Eco-Tourism was created in the 1980s by an Academic Adventurer, Clause-Dieter. The definition present today is, a form of tourism involving responsible travel to natural destinations, minimal harmful impact on the environment, building environmental awareness among visitors, and improving local people's well-being. It is directed towards an exotic, often threatened and natural environment. The first general accepted definition of Eco-Tourism is to travel relatively undisturbed or uncontaminated areas with the specific objective of studying, admiring, and enjoying the scenery and its wild plants and animals. Eco-Tourism has many negative and positive benefits to our environment, for instance, negative benefits, the destruction of natural features; overused tracks lead to soil erosion and damage to vegetation. There are areas where they are becoming overused, causing danger. Tourist hotels are dumping waste into rivers producing water pollution. The positive benefits, firstly, it builds cultural and environmental awareness; encouraging positive experiences for visitors as well as hosts, secondly, it minimizes the impact of tourism if on the environment; reducing pollutions, natural habitat loss, increased endangered species etc, and another is the respect for local culture, supports humans right and democratic movement.         

- Why is it a growing trend?

Eco-Tourism is a growing trend because it produces useful and helpful results for the environment along with improving the lives of local communities. It is both valuable and sustainable. There are many reasons and benefits why it is a growing trend, these include a higher rate of awareness about the need to protect the environment, it conserves the natural habitats and aquatic species, it encourages positive experience for visitors as well as hosts; minimizing the impact of tourism on the environment and it boosts local people to provide financial benefits in its favour.            

- How does tourism help our oceans?

Eco-Tourism helps our oceans by protecting the species that lives in there, decreasing the damage being done by illegal fishermen such as overfishing and bycatch. Acknowledging and watching our actions when dealing with rubbish. Just basically helping it produce better quality ocean waters along with preventing such species to become instinctive and overpopulated.