Ecotourism is an alternative trend in tourism, which seeks to harmonize with all the natural settings of the environment, which is an approach to the preservation of our ecosystems. With a high boom, it has become the most entrepreneurial environment in tourism worldwide as an activity that became apparent in the late 80s; attracting a great universal interest, including the World Commission on Environment and Development of the United Nations (UN), which declared the year 2002 as an International Year of Ecotourism.
We need to implement in our individual and collective culture of the masses, a perennial conservation of the local environment and the minimum practicable neutralization that is destructively damaging the atmosphere. This tourist work is committed to comply with certain rules to be regarded as a legitimate project.
Therefore, it should reduce as far as possible the impacts that damage the sector where we go on the road; stimulating awareness, respect and support to the formal and cultural environment, especially, granting tourists as observation and experimentation of recreational activities in the natural set, allowing us to appreciate the value of nature and landscapes.
It also has the obligation to allocate part of the interests and economic gains that produced the conservation, protection, maintenance and custody of both natural resources and cultural tourist paths; thus increase the protectiveness which is closer to the issues of political, social and environmental sources of haunts, because this procedure usually develops in rural and natural areas, far from cities and protected as national parks sites.
One of the great advantages that we see is related to the activation of the development of the rural economy, particularly in mountainous areas, where it is very precarious and unstable. However, tourism is often given a low environmental impact; keeping a wary nature and with the local space and also generating employment opportunities for the inhabitants of these remote lands’ end.
It is important to know that the conditions of the places always influence to determine and set the capacity in terms of total number of visitors who can access a particular region; since in most cases, this space can be limited in an effort to preserve the beauty of its tourism potential.
Ecotourism is inclined to a favorable alternative that, in addition to the enjoyment of the experience, provide the satisfaction of contributing to a pleasant and rewarding experience to keep in balance the environment and its components form; which have a life cycle and it should be in perfect harmony with the natural systems that comprise it.
It is not a difficult task that is required apart from common sense, is the desire to cooperate to sustain and protect the natural environment, in the not distant future, so future generations will inherit it.
ALFA