Sustainable Tourism embraces all segments of the industry with guidelines and criteria that seek to reduce environmental impacts, particularly the use of non-renewable resources, using measurable benchmarks, and to improve tourism’s contribution to sustainable development and environmental conservation
Sustainable Ecotourism -
Minimizes environmental impacts using benchmarks
Improves contribution to local sustainable development
Requires lowest possible consumption of non-renewable resources
Sustains the well-being of local people
Stresses local ownership
Supports efforts to conserve the environment
Contributes to biodiversity