Eco-tourism can bring more tourists and improve the quality of life in rural areas, but it should be planned to avoid disrupting local cultures and the environment, according to Antonio D. Kalaw, Jr., Chairman of the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP). Kalaw urged planners tourism 17 Asian countries participating in a course of Trainor, [...]

Peacock Committee for the Protection of Ganjam district has urged the government to declare Pakidi hilly area, which houses a large number of peacocks, as an ecotourism destination. “If the series Hill was declared a site eco-tourism, it will attract visitors from across the country and abroad, contributing to the development of backward area,” said [...]

Bill Stilwell loves nature. He loves it in the scientific sense of so many creatures live in a habitat. He loves the art of landscape full of color, texture, light and shadow. And he loves in a romantic sense of the life instinct great wild places. All this was evident during Stilwell’s presentation of Manitoba [...]

The first village eco-tourism has developed in a joint venture with Habitat for Humanity Indonesia Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) came up with some of the most beautiful temples in ancient Indonesia. According to a report in the ETN, the project around the village of gravel, which is located near the famous temple of Prambanan, [...]

Forestry Commission, through its Management Support Centre (RMSC), has developed five southern dry forest reserves in the Winneba forest site District Community eco-tourism. Reserves are Ahirasu number one and two, Akrabong, and Obotumfo Abasomba, all in Awutu Senya district. They are officially designated globally significant biodiversity areas because of their low levels of biodiversity in [...]

One of the most exclusive Island of Bahrain has great probable for ecotourism and education, according to one expert. The Shaikh Ebrahim Bin Malik Island, which derives its name from a local Islamic leader historic, naturally rocky coast, making it one of the other Islands was not affected by coastal expansion. Surrounding waters contain a [...]

Northern Joint Regional Planning Panel (JRPP) approved a development application for a proposed eco-tourism on Waterfall Way is Fernmount. The proposal comes in 18 tourist cabins with two bedrooms, a conference center and associated infrastructure. It would be developed in five steps; step 1 involves the construction of six huts and a tent for temporary [...]

Internationally renowned naturalist, Professor David Bellamy, said Disneyland as an excellent example of ecotourism in the 18th Global Conference on Asia-Pacific Eco Tourism Queensland. The self-described wandering botanist Pommy told delegates at the conference in Noosa Disney’s Monday led the way back in the 50s, “when the `blessing’ of international travel packages appeared on the [...]

A caravan and tourist park which accommodates more than 150,000 a year has been named a finalist at the prestigious NSW Tourism Awards. Lane Cove River Tourist Park in Plessey Rd, Macquarie Park, was designated in three categories: ecotourism; tourism and caravan parks; and Qantas award for brilliance in sustainable tourism. The park, which is [...]

Everyone depend on farm as well as forest. Ecotourism is more profitable than other ventures like cattle ranching, timber logging and farming; researchers have shown for the first time for a region of Peru. The findings are likely to give local people the financial incentive to keep neighboring virgin rainforest pristine, helping to lock away [...]