IGCSE Geog: Ecotourism

Which of the following is a NOT feature of ecotourism

• Minimizing waste by recycling

• Reducing energy usage by installing energy saving light bulbs

• Employing local people

• High rise building

Which of the following is NOT a feature of ecotourism

• low rise building that are in keeping with the natural environment

• Importing food from other countries

• Educating tourists about the local environment and cultures

• Using solar panels for energy

Which of the following is NOT feature of ecotourism:

• Selling locally made good and handicrafts

• Encouraging tourist to use low impact transportation like bicycles to get around.

• Buying food from local farmers

• Using large amounts of water for swimming pools and power showers.

Sustainable tourism is .....

• Tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities

• Tourism that involves large numbers of people flooding into vacation areas at specific seasons, forcing the host destination to change in various ways

One of the key principles of sustainable tourism is that local people should have a say in the decisions that are made about tourism in their area

• True

• False

Ecotourism reduces the negative impacts of economic leakage in an area.

• True

• False

Which of these words below do not all represent the aims/principles of ecotourism.

• local, environmentally friendly, large-scale, profit-driven

• local, environmentally friendly, small-scale, low-impact, fair

• international, large-scale, low-impact, unfair

• International, high-impact, fair, environmentally friendly