Learning intention: To investigate methods to make tourism more sustainable

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Learning intention: To investigate methods to make tourism more sustainable To evaluate the attempts to make Ecuador’s tourism industry more sustainable

Key terms Sustainable tourism eco tourismTNCEconomic leakage, social, economic, environmental Extension: Futurity, public participation equity

What is sustainable development?

Development that conserves existing habitats, traditions and cultures

Development that protects the environment

Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs

Sustainable tourismTourism that aims to achieve the goals of sustainable development by minimising the negative impacts and maximising the positive impacts of tourism

Ecotourism is a form of sustainable tourism that aims to reduce the impact of tourism on the natural environmentIt is often small scale and to an area of ecological value

Tourism is unsustainable

Do you agree or disagree?

Why?

Why is this a good location for tourism? Social Economic Environmental?

The sustainability stool

Use your home learning notes for this: 1. Use either the sustainability stool OR the sustainable tourism

criteria

2. Identify examples of where the Ecuador tourism industry meets those aspects of sustainability

3. Annotate these onto the diagram or table

4. Rate each one from 1-5

5. 5 = most evidence to show this6. 0 = no evidence to show this

7. Justify your scores

Do the advantages of ecotourism in Ecuador outweigh the carbon cost of travel by air to get there?

To what extent can sustainable tourism principals be applied to mass tourism?

Explain how ecotourism in Ecuador achieves sustainability

Tourism is unsustainable

Do you agree or disagree?

Why?

Sustainable Tourism Eco tourism in Ecuador

Why is Ecuador a good destination for tourism?

Score 1-5 Justification

Social

Economic

Environmental

Question:

Sustainable Tourism Eco tourism in Ecuador

Why is Ecuador a good destination for tourism? Score

1-5Justification

Using resources sustainably

Reducing over consumption and waste

Maintaining biodiversity

Supporting local economies

Involving local communities

Training staff

Marketing tourism responsibly

Undertaking research

Integrating tourism into planning

Providing better information

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