One of the famous and fastest growing industries in the world today is Ecotourism. It is described as a form of natural resources based tourism focused on experiencing and learning about nature. The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) defines ecotourism as “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves well-being of local people”. [...]

Tea plantation in Bangladesh produces and exports a large quantity of high quality tea. Tea plantations are also the major eco tourism attractions bringing in a secondary revenue stream. Most of the 163 tea estates in Bangladesh are located in the North-eastern region. Sylhet, Srimangal Moulvibazar, Habigonj, Chittagong, Panchagarh are the main tea growing areas [...]

With abundant flora and fauna, Sundarban ecotourism has emerged as one of the most desired ecotourism destinations in Bangladesh. Sundarban is the world’s largest estuarine mangrove forest and the home to the majestic Bengal Tiger and the Sundari trees from which it derived it name- Sundarban. The rich variations of wildlife and maze of canals and [...]

Trainers and managers in the field of nature tourism in several Asian countries, has recently completed a 10-day workshop at the International School of Sustainable Tourism (ISST) in this free port of Subic Be one of the main promoters of the so-called “tourism of tomorrow”. training course for trainers and managers of eco-tourism held in [...]

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 [...]

In 2008, worldwide international tourist arrivals increased to 924 million, up from 898 million in 2007. Industry sources estimate world travel and tourism generated in excess of $7 trillion in 2007, rising to more than $13 trillion in the coming decade. Despite its stunning array of natural, cultural and anthropological attractions, Bangladesh is currently known [...]

Costa Rica, the birthplace of ecotourism, has been very successful in sustaining it. The authorities have managed to increase the number of national parks, produce environmentally friendly electricity thus almost reaching the country’s goal of being the first carbon neutral nation. When Costa Rica’s current President took office in 2007, he promised to the people [...]

I don’t know about you, but every once in a while, I find myself imagining what I might do or be if I could reinvent myself — or if my friends could, or my neighbor, or my sister. What interesting, totally different opportunities exist out there that might capture the imagination? Well, I think I’ve [...]

Rather than build up Routes 8 and 12 as a trade route competing with Route 9, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam should jointly develop Routes 8 and 12 as an eco-tourism routes linking the three countries, suggests the Thai ambassador to Laos. Vitavas Srivihok, the Thai ambassador to Laos, says Thailand will urge Laos and Vietnam [...]

Funds from a global environment grants scheme implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will enable an indigenous community in one of Cambodia’s poorest provinces to build an ecotourism project at a lake recently returned to them from private ownership. The mostly indigenous ethnic Kuoy residents of Romchek village in northeast Preah Vihear province [...]