Eco-tourism

Introduction to tourism and its significance: tourism is an important type of trade and investment activities of high profitability, it has become a major global industry, and is expected to grow steadily, with the number of international tourists tripled in the past two decades, tourism is woalsfr largest sources of employment in the world. Tourism is the most developed industries in the world today has become one of the most important sectors in international trade, to tourism from an economic

 perspective is productive sector plays an important role in increasing national income and balance of payments, and a source of hard currency, and an opportunity for labour, and the target of achieving development programmes. From the perspective of the social, cultural, tourism is a dynamic movement associated with the cultural aspects of the human in the sense that it is a civilized and bridge of communication between cultures and human knowledge of the Nations and peoples, And a natural outcome of the development of societies and the high standard of living of the individual. It should be noted that environmental tourism is an attractive factor for tourists and satisfy their desires in terms of different natural sites and identify topography and the vegetation and wildlife, as well as visiting local communities to learn their customs and traditions. Sustainable tourism has become a platform and the many tourist establishments, and to think many of the application of the concept of sustainable tourism is not costly in financial terms, it has a moral and financial returns, and profit and benefit of tourism enterprises. The application of the concept of sustainable tourism depends on three important aspects: first: the return of tourism entrepreneurs. Second: the social dimension, Given that these institutions are part of the community and benefit from local expertise and competencies as possible, as well as community involvement and a banner. III: the environment, where they are treated as part of the environment, and therefore must conserve natural resources of water and energy, plants and natural neighborhoods to ward off any risk of pollution and degradation.

Components of tourism: tourism activities overlap with many areas, here are the basic components of tourism should be taken into account in any planning process: • factors and elements that attract visitors: the natural elements such as climate, terrain, beaches and the sea, rivers, forests and protected areas, and human motivations such as historical and cultural sites, archaeological, religious, amusement and games. • Facilities and services such as accommodation and hospitality: hotels, inns, guesthouses, restaurants and restrooms. • Various services such as tourist information centres and travel agencies, and making and selling crafts, banks, medical centers and postal and police and tour guides. • Transportation services: includes all types of transportation to area attractions. • Infrastructure services: provision of potable water, electric energy and the disposal of waste water and solid waste, And provide a network of roads and communications. • Institutional elements: plans include marketing and tourism promotion programs, such as legislation, laws and organizational structures, and motivated to attract investment in the tourism sector, and the education and training of employees in the tourism sector.

Components of ecotourism: the most important factors and components of eco-tourism are the following:

• Natural ecological factors: the elements and dynamic systems, and those provided by nature entirely, such as the surface of the Earth and mountains and valleys, forests and caves, rivers and parks and deserts, and types of views and expertise involved, or that human action such as gardens and parks. • Climatic factors: the seasons and the elements and potential shifts in summer or winter, spring or fall, and turn these items into major tourism components, watch the sunset on the beach or skiing on snow in the mountains of Lebanon, or with the stars in the desert away from all lighting. • Biological factors such as wealth, diverse plant flowers, trees and plants, and mineral water to livestock and fish, birds, fish and various sea creatures. • Birdwatching Bird Watching (and resident): Tourist facilities are environmentally important new, particularly in the Middle East. The region, for reasons of geography and climate, is the headquarters of strains and species of birds of their own, it is also a traditional corridor for migratory birds between the North (the harsh winter climate) and the South (a warm climate in summer). The transit corridors or passage bird additional tourist interested asks Daddy, scholars and aficionados of the genre. Traffic control sites abound for migratory birds along the Eastern Mediterranean coast or on internal migration line across the Bekaa Valley, it should be noted that countries like Oman had begun to acquire an international reputation in this field. • Observe the stars in the skies of our country's net and the other in Arabic for the Nordic skies that obscure the clouds most of the days and nights of the year, far from the capital cities of the urbanization where artificial lights obscure the light of stars. The skies, deserts and remote areas of our environmental tourist attraction is required frequently among tourists from the Nordic countries, for example, may have developed the power of tourism in Dubai desert areas for this type of tourism. • Physical cultural factors: top rated historic sites and monuments (old no pre 1700) or modern, can be contiguous or positive factors in the ocean environment. The palaces or castles are often surrounded by a perimeter of ecological gardens and water and sometimes a valid framework reserves development of environmental resources of flora and birds.
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