Theorising visitor learning in ecotourism

Walter, Pierre

doi:10.1080/14724049.2012.742093

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“…Step 1: More than 25 research papers and documents related to ecotourism and environmental literacy in China, Taiwan, and abroad [55][56][57][58][59] were reviewed to establish these item pools.…”

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Environmental Literacy on Ecotourism: A Study on Student Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavioral Intentions in China and Taiwan

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This study aims to gain further insights to Chinese and Taiwanese university students' environmental literacy on ecotourism. A structural equation model is developed and validated in an effort to explore the differences between Chinese and Taiwanese university students in terms of their environmental knowledge, environmental attitude, and behavioral intentions. The results showed that the ecotourism perception of Chinese and Taiwanese university students affect their behavioral intentions. Chinese university students exhibited a higher correlation between ecotourism knowledge and behavioral intentions than their Taiwanese counterparts. The findings also revealed differences between the Chinese and Taiwanese students in their perception of ecotourism, and this disparity was particularly evident with regards to how ecotourism should be governed. A moderate difference in ecotourism behavioral intentions was also identified, in which Taiwanese university students were less likely to engage in self-empowerment or private empowerment, to be more educated in the field of ecotourism than their Chinese counterparts.

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“…However, these activities have not been effectively linked with ecotourism. Such would require ecotourists to not only view birds, but also connect with the philosophy of ecotourism, that is, operationalise aspects of learning and conservation that are said to be ecotourism imperatives (Donohoe & Needham, 2006;Walter, 2013).…”

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A comprehensive framework for ecotourism and wetland restoration: the case of Bogotá, Colombia

Ramírez

Fennell

2014

Journal of Ecotourism

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The purpose of this study is to examine wetland utilisation and protection through the lens of ecotourism. More specifically, we explore the conditions around the use of Bogotá's wetlands and how such use has contributed to significant spatial fragmentation by wetland zone reduction mainly by illegal landfilling and institutional turmoil generated by inconsistent governmental management, corruption and burocracy-related issues. The foregoing discussion provides scope into the various challenges and opportunities confronting the development of restoration and ecotourism in the wetlands of Bogotá. The proposed framework is felt to be an important contribution to the literature on ecotourism development and conservation because of the challenges that prevent ecotourism from being an agent of positive change. It is a study of the identification of the factors that work against development and conservation.

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“…CBET telah memberikan dampak positif di bidang pendidikan, seperti memberikan kesempatan untuk saling belajar di anatara pengunjung dan masayarakat lokal di destinasi tersebut mengenai isuterkait dengan lingkungan, kebudayaan dan pola hidup [29] [20]. Konsep CBET muncul sebagai alternatif untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut dengan cara mengajak kelompok kecil dan memperbanyak praktik pariwisata yang ramah lingkungan [34].…”

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The Importance of Social Capital in Community-Based Ecotourism to Achieve Sustainable Tourism Development

Hizmi

Said

2019

MBI

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Ecotourism development is one of the important assets to promote conservation and sustainable economic development in the tourist destinations. The implementation of ecotourism can be initiated through Community-based Ecotourism (CBET). CBET promotes participation in natural and cultural resource management as well as to seek benefits for the economic development of the local community in which ecotourism takes place. However, the implication of CBET in several places is far from the target to achieve sustainability. It was identified that the sustainability was caused by mutual symbiotic and benefits among local economic livelihood, cultural preservation, and environmental conservation. One of the main hindering factors for the implementation of CBET to create mutual symbiotic among those aspects is insufficient social capital. This finding is based on reviews of related literature particularly about social capital in CBET. In addition, social capital and CBET’s main issues in economic, culture and environment were analysed. The result shows that social capital was found important and worthy to be given special attention because it includes basic social features i.e. norms, social trust and networks. For example, the success of CBET can be seen in the case study conducted in Tumani Tenda Camp Village-Gambia, West Africa. It was showed that social capital has created positive impact on economic development, environmental management and cultural preservation. By setting up structured social capital, local people currently have less relied on other villages to provide poultry for the camp and even can sell the surplus. For a high level of social capital, this village has become the first village winning the National Environmental Agency’s competition for ecocamp development in forest program. In terms of cultural preservation, social capital helped villagers in building trust and participation in several rituals or village’s activities. However, conformity and restriction on the norms and rules in the village will be negative consequences of social capital in Tumani Tenda Camp Village. Thus, social capital in CBET should be put into account for its important roles in supporting economic development, environmental management and cultural activities in many other tourism sites.

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Theorising visitor learning in ecotourism

Cited by 52 publications

References 58 publications

Environmental Literacy on Ecotourism: A Study on Student Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavioral Intentions in China and Taiwan

Environmental Literacy on Ecotourism: A Study on Student Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavioral Intentions in China and Taiwan

A comprehensive framework for ecotourism and wetland restoration: the case of Bogotá, Colombia

The Importance of Social Capital in Community-Based Ecotourism to Achieve Sustainable Tourism Development

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