Ecological tourism

Nowadays, more people care about the environment. Everyday new alternatives are created to respect and take care of it as well as to show that there is a wide range options that are eco-friendly. One of them is Eco-tourism, a way of traveling that involves going to natural and isolated areas to support conservation and see wildlife. Although Eco-tourism has many advantages it also presents disadvantages due to it is a novelty in the tourism world.

On the one hand, eco-tourism is a sustainable choice for the environment preservation. The point of ecological tourism is visiting exotic landscapes and protect them, so that offers an incentive for local people to preserve and protect their environment and wildlife since it can provide significant revenues from the tourism. Moreover, it benefits the local people due to the increase demand for local jobs in response for the need of workers in hotels, resorts or tour guides among others. Finally, other advantage is the cultural education it provides to the society. Ecological tourism is not only about visiting different places but it is also about knowing local people and their cultures.

On the other hand, ecological tourism can severely damage the wildlife. This tourism can interrupt the peaceful wildlife. Not all the people care much about the inconvenience caused to the animals, so their behavior damages the animals and causes negative effects on the ecosystem. In addition, due to the difficulty of organizing a good trip with good conditions and also the remoteness of the places, these trips are expensive and not many people can afford it, so its advantages cannot be exploited by everybody being almost an exclusive tourism for certain people. Eventually, sometimes local people do not always benefit economically or socially as a result of ecotourism. Moreover, the type of employment that local people get into it is not always the best because they are usually low paid or they are only offered temporary contracts without any respect for labor hours or conditions.

As far as I am concerned, Eco-tourism is one of the living proofs that people want an ecological change that improves the world in which we live but as a new movement there is a lack of regulation and it needs to improve certain aspects like the labor control or economic aspects. However, if these problems are solved, this kind of tourism will be the perfect eco-friendly choice and alternative in the world of travel.