The focus of this book is on the study and analysis of ecotourism and its
overall economic significance in the era of globalisation. The basic concept
underlying ecotourism is that tourism generates revenue that issued to conserve
the ecology of an area that attracts the tourists in the first place. Tourism
and environment have always been inextricably intertwined. The influence is felt
in both directions with environmental attributes influencing the nature of
tourism and tourism, in turn, resulting in modifications to the environment
Major issues covered in this book are: Public Protected Areas; Privately Owned
Protected Areas; Modified Spaces; Wilderness; Indigenous Territories;
EcotourismRelated Organisations; Ecotourism in the InterSectoral