Mexican Ecotourism

I believe ecotourism is one way leading toward environmental conservation; protection of local biodiversity, and at the same time is a great opportunity for improving the local economy. Also, ecotourism gives the opportunity for sharing the beauty of such rich and abundant species and ecosystems with the world travelers. Unfortunately for Costa Rica, which is shown that ecotourism can be successful story in terms of bringing serious capital and investments, but I found it problematic once reading the stories of the local people from the case study provided. The way I understood was that the idea of ecotourism was to bring this beautiful Central American country up to date with the global modernization and globalization, by attracting foreign investments being tourism or pharmaceutical industry. But in the process seems that few individuals are cashing in on the expense of the disadvantaged nature and indigenous people, who make this county amazing in the firs place. Before anything else, I would address the outstanding issues with Costa Rican`s government control over all aspects of the ecotourism. This country needs serous capital invested into their conservation efforts. If they continue the overreliance on …show more content…
If they have skills like Manuel, who is a farmer and hunter he could be trained and be hired by the conservation park to be working as a tourist guide, for instance. So, involving the local people in the process is another key to the solution. If some are skilled to build cabins and logging they can be hired to do that, instead of allowing high-rise hotel building. In my opinion, 10-floor Hilton hotel in the middle of the pristine rainforest is not an ecotourism. To wrap thing up, I would recommend frequent meetings of committee including all parties being involved and transparency of the process, the two key elements making ecotourism fully