Ecotourism
A form of responsible travel that focuses on visiting natural areas while protecting the environment and supporting local communities.
What is Ecotourism?
Sustainability in tourism is built on three pillars—which together ensure that travel benefits communities, preserves ecosystems, and supports long-term economic growth.
What is Economic, Social, and Environmental?
A formal statement created by the public sector that serves as a master plan that lists the parameters for development and stewardship of tourism resources within the region.
What is tourism policy?
A Tuscan specialty with kale, potatoes, onion, garlic, Italian sausage, and sometimes cannellini beans or bacon.
What is Zuppa?
Someone who visits a nearby city for the day and returns home.
What is an Excursionist?
The practice of companies claiming to be eco-friendly when they really are not.
What is "greenwashing?"
The maximum number of visitors or level of activity a destination can sustain without causing irreversible harm to its environment, culture, or economy, or without significantly degrading the visitor experience.
What is Carrying Capacity?
Establishing specialized tourism organizations, boards, and councils to align government efforts with private sector goals, ensuring a unified approach to tourism development.
What is the Coordination of tourism policy?
A hearty, iconic dish from Adelaide, South Australia, where a traditional meat pie is served upside down in a thick bowl of green pea soup.
What is Floating Pie soup?
Initiated by the United Nations Tourism (UNT), this comprehensive set of principles was designed to guide key-players in tourism development and serve as a fundamental frame of reference for responsible and sustainable tourism.
What is the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism?
A global nonprofit founded in 1990 that helps guide and promote eco-tourism around the world. It created key principles for responsible travel, focusing on protecting natural environments, supporting local communities, and educating travelers.
What is The International Ecotourism Society?
The ability of tourists to adapt their behaviors or choice of destinations in response to the changes brought about by climate change.
What is Adaptive Capacity?
The Implementation of laws, licensing, and operating standards (e.g., accommodation regulations, safety codes) to maintain quality and protect both tourists and the industry.
What is Legislation and Regulation in tourism policy?
The most well‑known red pepper sauce known to Macedonia. It is a tangy, sweet, and smoky relish made from roasted red bullhorn peppers, eggplant, and garlic.
What is Ajvar?
Located in the Mexican state of Yucatán, lies this historic Mayan city.
What is Chichén Itzá?
This group helps tourists understand how their trips impact the planet and gives them tools to make better choices.
What is SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL INTERNATIONAL?
This tourism sustainability pillar emphasizes the importance of creating opportunities for local people to participate in and benefit from tourism, whether through employment, entrepreneurship, or the sale of local goods and services.
What is Economic Sustainability?
Implementing regulations to protect natural resources, heritage sites, and local culture from the negative impacts of over-tourism.
What is Environmental and Cultural Protection of tourism policy?
A traditional Scottish, hearty potato soup made with potatoes, leeks, onions, and often carrots, simmered in a flavorful stock.
What is Tattie soup?
This tourism motivation theorist explained why people travel by organizing motivations into a hierarchy that evolves over a traveler’s lifetime. It is one of the most influential frameworks in tourism psychology and is widely used in tourism, hospitality, and event‑management education.
What is Pearce’s typology of tourism motivation—often called the Travel Career Ladder (TCL)?
The calculator estimates your footprint in three areas: home energy, transportation and waste.
What is carbon footprint?
The second pillar of sustainable tourism emphasizes the importance of respecting and preserving the cultural heritage, traditions, and rights of local communities.
What is Social Sustainability?
Supporting human resource development by investing in vocational training and tourism management schools to ensure a skilled tourism workforce.
What is Education and Training in tourism policy?
Dumplings that are made of thinly rolled-out dough filled with endless varieties of fillings, both savory and sweet, including: meat, sauerkraut, wild mushrooms, cheese, bilberries, blueberries or strawberries.
What is pierogi?
According to motivational theorist, Plog, these types of tourists prefer unstructured travel, cultural immersion, and off-the-beaten-path experiences. They are comfortable with risk and ambiguity and often early adopters of new destinations.
What are Allocentric Tourists?