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cje ›› 2005, Vol. ›› Issue (3): 348-353.

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Analysis on unqualified ecotourism practice: From the point of view of stakeholders

LIU Xuemei, BAO Jigang   

  1. Center for Tourism Planning and Research, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510275, China
  • Received:2003-10-19 Revised:2003-12-02 Online:2005-03-10

Abstract: Despite the considerable literature defining what ecotourism is or should be,`Ecotourism' is experiencing various practices with different features.Now the term `Ecotourism’ is almost applied to all tourism activities that are based on nature.Faced to the flooding of those unqualified ecotourism,it is of great necessity to put forward professional claim.The writer holds that the key to the realization of rigorous ecotourism chiefly lies in the relationships among the different interest groups involved.So the focus of this paper is to give a special analysis to the interest relations among those stakeholders,which include local government,tour operators,local residents and ecotourists,and thus help to find out what’s wrong with those unqualified ecotourism and the roots of those problems.

Key words: Pseudotaxus chienii, Population structure, Spatial distribution pattern, Community characteristics, Fengyangshan Natural Reserve

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