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• • Ecotourism According to; TIES responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people.
• • Ecotourism According to; UNWTO all nature-based forms of tourism in which the main motivation of the tourists is the observation and appreciation of nature as well as the traditional cultures prevailing in natural areas.
• • Ecotourism According to; Ceballus-Lascurain 1993 everyone can be an ecotourist.  The person who practices ecotourism has the opportunity of immersing him or herself in nature in a way that most people cannot enjoy in their routine, urban existence.
• • Ecotourism According to; Weaver involves travel to relatively undisturbed or uncontaminated natural areas with the specific objective of studying, admiring, and enjoying the scenery.
• • Eco-Tourist wide range of travelers, of all ages and interests.
• Eco-Tourist wide range of travelers, of all ages and interests.

  • responsible consumers interested in social, economic, and environmental sustainability.
• Eco-Tourist seeking to minimize the carbon footprint of their travel,
• • Evolution of Ecotourism ecotourism first grew out of the global environmental movement in the late 1970s.
• • Emergence of Ecotourism initiatives to mainstream sustainability within travel and tourism,
• • Advocacy Platform: 1950s – 1960s tourism considered an ideal activity with few negative impacts for tourist destinations. Government should promote tourism.
• • Cautionary Platform: 1970s proposed that tourism would eventually result in negative impacts for tourism destinations unless it was carefully planned and regulated.
• Adaptancy Platform: 1980 -promoted less mass tourism and more alternative tourism. Alternative tourism included: home stays; cultural villages and volunteer tourism.
• Knowledge-based Platform: 1990s -promotes planning specific tourism activities and destinations which attempt to scientifically determine impacts and capacities for tourism destinations.
• Ecotourism is a late 20th-century neologism compounded from eco- and tourism.
•  English Dictionary, ecotour was first recorded in 1973 and ecotourism, “probably after ecotour”, in 1982.˚
• • Ecotour tour of or a visit to an area of ecological interest, 
• Ecotour - imilar tour or visit designed to have as little detrimental effect on the ecology as possible or undertaken with the specific aim of helping conservation efforts.
• Ecotourism - tourism to areas of ecological interest to support conservation efforts and observe wildlife.
• Claus-Dieter (Nick) Hetzer - supposedly coined ecotourism in 1965 and ran the first ecotours in the Yucatan during the early 1970s.
• Egotourism -travelers more motivated by an egotistical desire to feel they engage in ethical tourism than by a genuine desire to support a local ecology or sustainable development.
• • Volunteerism tourism concept that aims to achieve economic goals while promoting community development.
• • Significance of Ecotourism provides effective economic incentives for conserving and enhancing bio-cultural diversity
• • The Philippines third largest English- speaking country in the world.
• 1521 -  Spanish colonization 
• • 1571 Construction of Intramuros a “Walled City” 
• • 1898 350 years and 300 rebellions, the Filipinos, with leaders like Jose Rizal and Emilio Aguinaldo, succeeded in winning their independence.
• 1898  Philippines became the first and only colony of the United States.
• 1941 to 1945 -They then waged a guerilla war against the Japanese.
• 1946 - The Philippines regained its independence.
•  Philippine Raptors Conservation Program -established to protect the Philippine Eagle and other endangered birds of prey and their habitats.
• Tamaraw Conservation Program -aims at implementing consistent solutions to save the Tamaraw in the wild while respecting the residing human population and improving their livelihoods.
• • Crocodile Farming Institute conserve two endangered crocodile species the Philippine saltwater crocodile.
• Calauit Game Preserve and Bird Sanctuary Project -wildlife sanctuary in the Philippines which was originally created in 1976
• Pawikan Conservation Program -aims to help protect the endangered species by educating the local community.
• • Dalaw Turo Outreach Program innovative educational tool for teaching and promoting environmental messages on nature conservation.
• Caves Management and Conservation Program (CMPCP)- embody the principles of sustainable development, namely the formulation and implementation of relevant policies,
•  Save the Philippine Sea - aims to narrow the gap between scientists and the general public, the old and the young, and the passionate
• •  Waves for Water primary focus around providing clean water, we also coordinate and execute natural disaster relief efforts around the world
• • World Wild Fund for Nature – Philippines improve Filipino lives by crafting solutions to climate change, providing sustainable
• • Greenspace Southeast Asia ensure the ability of the earth to nurture life in all its diversity.