A Content Analysis of Ecotourism Definitions

By D. Fennell. 2001

454 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/fbef8dff685e4fd1758f4f1e61779a5eb0327cca

How researchers see this paper

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. R. Groeneveld
2. S. Schipani
3. Zhenhua Liu
4. D. Harrison
5. H. Donohoe
6. R. Needham

In Education

1. S. Schipani
2. Zhenhua Liu
3. D. Harrison
4. H. Donohoe
5. R. Needham

Citations in the corpus

• Ecotourism: The Evolving Contemporary Definition (2006, background): “Fennell (2001b) concludes that there is growing sensitivity to ‘sustainability’ and ‘benefits to locals’ – a new trend in the definitional discourse.”
• Sustainable Tourism Development: A Critique (2003, background): “…to suppose that ecotourism, which is generally defined as environmentally responsible travel to relatively undisturbed or protected natural areas (Ceballos-Lascurain, 1996), though its exact definition varies widely in the literature (see Fennell, 2001), can be the path to sustainable development.”
• Tourist preferences for ecotourism in rural communities adjacent to Kruger National Park: A choice experiment approach (2012, background): “Although the potential of ecotourism to contribute towards poverty alleviation, biodiversity conservation, and employment creation has been acknowledged (World Ecotourism Summit, 2002; Fennell, 2001), the challenge remains in finding ways to address these issues jointly.”
• Impact of tourism development upon environmental sustainability: a suggested framework for sustainable ecotourism (2022, background): “…is natural resource-based tourism that resembles ecotourism and focuses on creating travel openings with marginal impact and encouraging learning about nature having a low impact, conservation, and valuable consideration for the local community’s well-being (Fennell 2001 & 2020; Butowski 2021).”
• Lao Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Community-Based Tourism and the Private Sector (2007, background): “Of special relevance to those with an interest in ‘pro-poor tourism’, it has been suggested that claims that sustainable tourism development, especially ecotourism, specifically benefits local people (Fennell, 2001: 407) have yet to be substantiated.”