ECOTOURISM is for protection of wild life and as well environment..it creates more opportunities to indigenous peoples,promoting ecotourism leads to employment opportunities,

1. CONCEPT AND
OPPORTUNITIES OF
ECOTOURISM
Pulla Ramu
1st Year MBA – Tourism Management
Department of Tourism Management
Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak

2. ECOTOURISM
Ecotourism is defined as responsible travel
to natural areas that conserves the
environment and improve the well being of
local people”(Ties ,1990)

3. Look deep into nature and then you will
understand everything better
- Albert Einstein

4. INTRODUCTION
Ecotourism is one of the best way of protecting the nature.
“Eco” refers to nature, which is above the historical and valuable assets, in
nutshell is above all things
Ecotourism perceived potential as an effective tool for sustainable development
around the world.
Ecotourism is not only the source of the entertainment to the human beings but
also give the awareness about the nature.

5. ECOTOURISM ACTIVITES

6. objective
To understand the concept of ecotourism
Opportunities in ecotourism
Impacts of ecotourism
Challenges in ecotourism
motivation

7. environment
localsprofits

8. Travel profile of ecotourists
Ecotourist are
Oldergeneration
Younger tourists
High income ,little
income
•Mostly Well educated
•Higher socio economic background
•Natural environment motivates the tourist to visit
•There are three important types of ecotourists

9. Motivation behind the ecotourist
Exploring the
nature
Traveling in
natural
enviornment
Observing
the flora and
fauna
Visiting
historical sites
Having
adventure
Experiencing
the local
culture
Feeling
healthy

10. Impacts of Ecotourism
 Poverty alleviation
 Reduce the migration from rural to urban
 Infrastructural development
 Preservation of the culture
 It creates awareness among local people about flora, fauna and
environment.
 Achieve gender equality and empowerment of women
 Global partnership for conservation of environment

11. Opportunities in Ecotourism
 It creates long term employment opportunities
 It creates livelihood to local people
 It leads establishment of eco-lodges
 Ecotourism promote conservation of natural heritage
 It promote local industry like handicrafts and local food
 It leads to infrastructural development in local area and
also it improves the quality of life local people

12. Characteristics of
Ecotourism
According to Chesworth (1995),
 Eco-tourism involves travel to relatively undisturbed natural
areas and or archeological sites,
 it focuses on learning and the quality of experience,
 it economically benefits the local communities
 Eco-tourists seek to view rare species, spectacular
landscapes and/or the unusual and exotic,
 Eco-tourists do not deplete resources but even sustain the
environment.

13. Challenges in Ecotourism
Health and safety measures
Animal welfare
Natural hertiage conservation

14. THANK YOU