Eco Tourism

Ecotourism is environmentally responsible and culturally sensitive travel to relatively undisturbed areas. The purpose of ecotourism is to foster an appreciation of nature and culture while promoting conservation, supporting sustainable community development, minimizing tourism’s negative impacts, and providing for the active, beneficial involvement of local communities. A true ecotourism experience involves well-planned, interactive learning experiences that introduce small groups of travelers to new environments. Ecotourism also commits the travel and tourism industry to sustainable operations models and environmentally sound practices. As such, ecotourism offers a great source for potential solutions to serious environmental and social problems

This website, allAfrica.com, is among the Internet's largest content sites, posting over 1000 stories daily in English and French and offering a diversity of multi-lingual streaming programming as well as over 900,000 articles in our searchable archive (which includes the archive of Africa News Service dating from 1997). Strategic alliances with media and information technology companies, such as Comtex News Network, Radio France Internationale, and the BBC, extend AllAfrica's global reach. Content agreements with over 130 African news organizations generate steady revenues for the content partners and give them, in turn, access to the prize-winning reporting of the AllAfrica team.

Vancouver Island is a premiere destination for travellers from around the world, who are seeking our wilderness, our mountains, and our miles of coastline. Locals enjoy the island for its many recreational activities, parks and beaches, and diverse ecology. We aim to promote Vancouver Island to both locals and tourists in the most eco-friendly and sustainable way possible, by promoting companies who value environmentally aware practices. We hope you find our website informative and entertaining!

The Ecotourism Resource Centre (ERC) is for students, academics, operators, stakeholders and travellers interested in ecotourism, nature based tourism, ecologically sustainable development and related issues. It is not an exhaustive list of relevant sites. It isn't intended to be, nor should it be relied on as the only source of information on a topic. Please note that inclusion of a resource or book title does not necessarily imply endorsement or support of an individual or organisation by Big Volcano

Ecotourism Kenya is a civil society organization that was founded in 1996 to promote ecotourism and sustainable tourism practices in Kenya. Founded with enormous industry support, the society was charged with the responsibility of providing the required support for the development of ecotourism and sustainable tourism in the country. Today, the society continues to pursue the vision of making Kenya’s tourism sustainable, in terms of concern for the environment and the welfare of local populations. As a membership organization, Ecotourism Kenya brings together individuals, community based organizations (CBOs) and corporate organizations in a forum where they can discuss the concept of ecotourism and use this knowledge to improve practices in their respective fields.

Located about 72kms from Thiruvananthapuram, the State Capital of Kerala, God's Own Country, the southern most State of India. Thenmala is a small village at the foothills of Western Ghats and predominantly a forest area. The famous Shenduruney Wildlife Sanctuary is the most important ecotourism resource of Thenmala Ecotourism. This Wildlife Sanctuary is of about 100 sq. km. and harbors large varieties of flora and fauna. Thenmala : "Then + Mala" , i.e. in local parlance "Then" means honey and "Mala" means hillock i.e. it mean honey hills. The honey collected from Thenmala forest region is of good quality and of high medicinal value because of the unique floristic composition of the forests