Ecotourism: Perspectives and Experiences

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Ecotourism or nature travel has become the fastest growing segment of the tourism industry. Taking into consideration the growing importance of ecotourism at the global level, the United Nations had declared 2002 the International Year of Ecotourism, and organized the first Global Ecotourism Conference in 2002. The next major global conference on ecotourism was organized at Oslo by UNEP in May, 2007. It reviewed the achievements in the ecotourism field and assessed challenges facing the industry to strengthen the unique contribution of ecotourism to conservation and sustainable development. Various countries have brought out practical strategies in addressing challenges facing the ecotourism community. This book focuses on ecotourism experiences and strategies of these countries, ecotourism and local economic development, how ecotourism can generate employment options and economic benefits and its implications for nature and culture conservation. The book is divided into two sections and includes sixteen articles and one annexure. The first section discusses the concepts of ecotourism, (green travel or nature travel) ecotourism challenges within a sustainable development agenda, evaluating ecotourism from the perspective of host community and local tour operators, ecotourism and employment generation, luxury ecotourism which includes ecolodges in remote unspoilt locations. The second section includes country experiences and studies on India, Sri Lanka, China, Costa Rica, Malaysia, New Zealand, Finland and Uganda. The Oslo Statement on ecotourism by International Ecotourism Society and Global Ecotourism Conference 2007 is included as an annexure.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Prabha Shastri Ranade

Prabha Shastri Ranade holds a Master's degree in Geography and Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Nagpur University. She has over 25 years of teaching and research. experience. She is currently working as Consulting Editor at Icfai Business School Research Centre, Ahmedabad. She started her career as Research Officer at National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organization, (Government of India) Kolkata, and has moved to teaching of Geography at Nagpur University. Later, she was awarded UGC's Research Associateship for post doctoral research projects, under which she worked at Devi Ahilya Vishwa Vidyalaya, Indore and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi for about 15 years. She has contributed numerous articles in academic journals, conference proceedings, edited books, newspapers and the Encyclopedia of World Geography (New York). She has edited a few books published by the Icfai University Press and also published four books, 'Maharashtra', under States of Our Union Series, by the Publications Division of Government. of India; Population Dynamics in India by Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi; Industries and Environment: A Study of Impact Assessment by APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi; and a text book on "Geography" for the Maharashtra State Text Book Bureau, Pune. She has presented research papers at various national and international conferences and seminars, held within the country and abroad. She was the recipient of "Young Scientist" honour by the Indian Science Congress for her research contribution. Her areas of expertise and interests include geography, population, resources and environment.