Ecotourism and ecolodges: sustainable planning and design for environmentally friendly tourism facilities

摘要: Increasingly, people are abandoning traditional vacation for a new type of tourism that gives them the sense nature. Trekking in mountains, bird watching, archaeological digs, desert and photo safaris, scuba diving some types vacations attract tourists to travel relatively remote unspoiled areas. This is referred as nature-based travel, ecotourism, or environmentally sustainable tourism. These terms used interchangeably reflect this trend industry. While many studies continuously attempt differentiate between general concern address dialectic relationships natural man made, visitors local population, tradition modernity. The generic concept has emerged parallel realization potential benefits combining interest nature with their environment. It responsible way travel; an alternative but it not everyone. appeals who love indigenous cultures. allows those enjoy attraction locality ensures cultures environments unimpaired. As industry expands world-wide, well planned, ecologically sensitive facilities high demand can be met ecolodges: small scale provide opportunity being close contact culture. In response theme, research papers issue Open House International answer primary question: How much change alternations cultural will acceptable? They explore planning design by debating, analyzing, visioning wide spectrum issues, focus on developments taking place biologically areas, whether desert, forest, tropical coasts, rural environments. Interestingly, they cover planet Earth from Australia through Arab World Turkey Argentina Chile. An important shared aspect these emphasis placed upon integrating people, nature, economy into responsive development processes while offering lessons how such integration may take place.