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Ecotourism
focuses on socially responsible travel, personal growth, and environmental sustainability. Ecotourism
typically involves travel to destinations where flora, fauna, and cultural heritage are the primary attractions.
Ecotourism is intended to offer tourists insight into the impact of human beings on the environment, and to
foster a greater appreciation of our natural habitats.
Tourism in general depends upon and increases air transportation, contributing significantly
to greenhouse gas emissions from combustion placed high into the stratosphere where they immediately
contribute to the heat trapping phenomenon behind global warming and climate change.
Ecotourism is a form of tourism that involves visiting natural areas—in the remote wilderness or
rural environments. According to the definition and principles of ecotourism established by The
International Ecotourism Society (TIES) in 1990, ecotourism is "Responsible travel to natural areas that
conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people Involves travel to natural
destinations and develops the characteristics
Minimizes impact
Builds environmental awareness
Provides direct financial benefits for conservation
Provides financial benefits and empowerment for local people
Respects local culture
Supports human rights and democratic movements
Tourism to areas of ecological interest (typically exotic and often threatened natural
environments), esp. to support conservation efforts and observe wildlife; spec. access to an endangered
environment controlled so as to have the least possible adverse effect is ecotourism. Shall we go for a visit
to such ecotourist places in Chennai.
Thus all the places that we have visited so far comes under ecotourism. These places concentrate in
developing the local area and it particularly aims at preserving