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Ecotourism involves responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and helps local people. It includes activities like animal watching, plant observation, trekking, and photography. Developing countries practice ecotourism for economic opportunities like jobs and investment since their populations have lower incomes than industrialized nations. However, Belize has experienced damage to natural attractions and theft of artifacts from poor tourism management. This paper aims to determine ecotourism's economic effects, identify environmental protections, and establish cooperation between governments to sustain ecotourism. Regulations should protect nature, livelihoods, and culture rather than jeopardize them.

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The Title: An Introduction

Ecotourism involves responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and helps local people. It includes activities like animal watching, plant observation, trekking, and photography. Developing countries practice ecotourism for economic opportunities like jobs and investment since their populations have lower incomes than industrialized nations. However, Belize has experienced damage to natural attractions and theft of artifacts from poor tourism management. This paper aims to determine ecotourism's economic effects, identify environmental protections, and establish cooperation between governments to sustain ecotourism. Regulations should protect nature, livelihoods, and culture rather than jeopardize them.

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The title: An Introduction

Ecotourism is dubbed as the responsible travel to natural areas that conserves


the environment and improves the well-being of local people (The International
Ecotourism Society, 2014) and is practiced in various locations around the world.
Ecotourism activities most commonly offered to tourists include animal watching, plant
observation, trekking, and photographic safari. (Ecotourism in America, 2014)
Developing nation or developing country is used to describe a nation in which
majority of its population lives on far less money as compared to the population of highly
industrialized countries. (The World Bank, 2014) Developing nations venture into
ecotourism because it offers economic opportunities such as small-enterprise
investment and employment, and it can boost both financial reserve and investments
from foreigners. (Untamed Path, 2014)
The negative effects of this type of ecotourism on the overall well-being of the
host country and its locals are overlooked by and unknown to most people. Belize,
known for showcasing its tropical waterfalls, Mayan ruins, and limestone caves to
tourists, has experienced damage to its natural rocks due to poor management of the
tour itself. Mayan artifacts have also been taken by tourists. (Science Daily, 2008)
Belizes Rio-On Pools has also experienced damage due to overuse and minimal site
maintenance. (Science Daily, 2008)
The goals of this paper include determining ecotourisms effect on the economy
on a national and local level, identifying safe guards needed for the protection of the
environment, and establishing grounds for collaboration between the national and local
governments in order to sustain ecotourism.

Being knowledgeable and aware about the dangers brought by ecotourism will
be helpful to people in such a way that it will raise awareness in terms of how people
also contribute to the negative impacts of ecotourism and how people can establish
policies that will safeguard the natural environment and resources of their country
without compromising their opportunity of capitalizing on their natural resources. That
being said, the policies regarding the limitations of ecotourism implemented by the local
government should be aligned with the purpose of ecotourism, and should work towards
protecting the natural environment, livelihood, and culture of the concerned country and
community rather than jeopardizing it.

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