Tourism Assignment 1

Statistics illustrates that Ecotourism has transform one of the rapidly growing sectors of tourism industry, growing by 10-15% worldwide. The definition of ecotourism is “the practice of low-impact, educational, ecologically and culturally sensitive travel that benefits local communities and host countries” (Honey, 1999).

In Malaysia, tourism sector ranks second as the economic pointer of the country. It’s the second main nerves after the oil and gas. This industry has been rising up significantly for the past few years. Tourism is basically for recreational, family or business purposes usually in a limited time most of it is during holidays. Tourism is commonly labelled as with trans-national travel either in or outstations. Ecotourism is an important sector of the tourist industry. Ecotourism is thoroughly describes travel to some natural areas, it is a type of nature-based in tourism that give benefit to local people and destinations environmentally, economically and culturally. Ecotourism pay attention on taking care of the natural environment and usually involves local communities in the provision of tourist implement, but they both also have positive and negative impacts. These enable the eco-tourists to gain more knowledge about the importance of environment.

World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations have forecasted that the ecotourism one day will become the main industry in the world. If this plan successfully implied, it can provide a large long term job opportunity. According to Halpenny and Elizabeth, 2002, tourism is already are the largest employer which generated almost 200 million jobs. Besides that, it can also yield advantages to those people who live in rural area of enhance income, sustain for protection and deliver a good environmental administration. The clash between administration conservation and growth of economic could be solved by allowing ecotourism to become the central to sustainable development. Not just that,