Ecotourism: concepts and problems into this new practice

Ecotourism: Concepts and Problems into this new practice.
Ecotourism: Concepts and Problems into this new practice.
University of Oxford Department of Continuing Education Advanced Diploma in Environmental Conservation
Henrique Costa Barros

University of Oxford Department of Continuing Education Advanced Diploma in Environmental Conservation
University of Oxford Department of Continuing Education Advanced Diploma in Environmental Conservation
Henrique Costa Barros

University of Oxford Department of Continuing Education Advanced Diploma in Environmental Conservation

Index

Introduction…………………………………….. 2
Concepts of Tourism………………………….. 3
Concepts of Ecotourism………………………. 4
The badly practiced Ecotourism……………... 7
The effectively practiced Ecotourism………... 8
Regulating Ecotourism………………………... 8
Conclusion……………………………………... 9
References…………………………………….. 10

Introduction.

Humanity faces serious global problems nowadays, from poverty and starvation to species extinction and climate change. All these problems affect all human beings in some sort of way depending on the location, social status, genre etc.; however none of them seems to be so high scaled as the environmental issues.
Nature, as part of its own system, changes constantly, but the way humans produce their lives accelerates and mutates its natural status in an unsustainable way. It happens because our economic production and consumption have not been balanced to the world`s natural reconstruction temporality.
Capitalism, our actual production and political model, has as its main target and objective the generation of profits, outcomes and interests independently of the consequences. Every day humans emit into the atmosphere thousands of tons of carbon dioxide and other more powerful pollutants and greenhouse gasses. Cars, factories, energy and power generation, mining; every single economic sector contributes for an unsustainable way of life that is killing this planet and our chances