 | Ecotourism and other Services Derived from Forests in the Asia- Pacific Region: Outlook to 2010. (FAO - Forestry, 1997) |
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| | INFORMATION NOTE ON ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY |
| | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
| | A NOTE ON LANGUAGE |
| | 1. INTRODUCTION |
|  | 2. SERVICES PROVIDED BY FORESTS |
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| | 2.1 Categories Of Services |
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| | Ecological services |
| | Economic services |
| | Sociocultural services |
| | Scenic and landscape services and values |
| | The relative importance of the various services |
| | 2.2 Relationship Between Services of Forests and Forest Production |
| | 2.3 Institutional and Policy Environment |
| | 2.4 Issues In Maintenance of Services of Forests |
| | 2.5 Summary of Issues Related to Services Provided by Forests |
| | 3. ECOTOURISM |
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| | 3.1 Ecotourism, Definitions, Concepts and Visitor Types |
| | 3.2 Actors in the Ecotourism “System” |
| | 3.3 Overview of Tourism and Ecotourism in the Asia-Pacific Region |
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| | Tourism in the Region |
| | Future Growth in Tourism in the Region |
| | Ecotourism in the Region |
| | Past and Future Ecotourism Growth in the Region |
| | 3.4 The Dimensions of Ecotourism |
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| | Environmental Dimension |
| | Experiential Dimension |
| | Sociocultural Dimension |
| | Economic Dimension |
| | 4. OUTLOOK: ISSUES, TRENDS, IMPLICATIONS, AND OPTIONS |
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| | 4.1 Preserving Services Derived from the Forest: Protected Area and Social Forestry Approaches |
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| | Protected areas and their management |
| | Movements towards a community/social forestry approach |
| | 4.2 Need for Increased Research and Utilization of Results |
| | 4.3 Importance of Social Issues in Management |
| | 4.4 Continued Funding Difficulties in Natural Areas |
| | 4.5 Ecotourism Management: Low Level of Funding and Reliance on Simplistic Strategies Like Carrying Capacity |
| | 4.6 Growth in International and Domestic Visitation |
| | 4.7 Change in the Visitor Market |
| | 4.8 Continued or Increased Competition, Particularly for International Visitors |
| | 4.9 Importance of Interpretation |
| | 4.10 Importance of Partnerships Among Ecotourism Actors |
| | 4.11 Greater Private Sector Roles in Management of Natural Areas |
| | 4.12 Pressure to Use Natural Areas for Activities that are Not Nature-Dependent |
| | 4.13 Professionalization of Operators and Desire to Exclude Those Not Meeting Professional Criteria |
| | 4.14 Tendency for Dominance by Larger Operators and Those Located in Regional or National Centres |
| | 4.15 Summary of Issues, Trends, Implications, and Options |
| | REFERENCES |
| | ANNEX - COUNTRY ECOTOURISM NOTES |
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| | COUNTRY NOTE: AUSTRALIA |
| | COUNTRY NOTE: CHINA |
| | COUNTRY NOTE: INDIA |
| | COUNTRY NOTE: INDONESIA |
| | COUNTRY NOTE: MALAYSIA |
| | COUNTRY NOTE: NEPAL |
| | COUNTRY NOTE: POHNPEI |
| | COUNTRY NOTE: THAILAND |
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This section contains a variety of country reports, arranged alphabetically. Due to the difficulty of obtaining current and/or detailed information without site visits (which were not possible for this project), the amount of information inevitably is limited. In addition, the statistical limitations discussed in Section 3.3 make it impossible to provide meaningful quantitative trends in ecotourism. Some country-level trends in general tourism are provided for 1994 to 1996 in WTO (1997).5
5 Country-level tourism estimates in this section generally are from national tourism offices and may differ somewhat from WTO estimates in Sec 3.3 due to differing years, differing definitions, and other factors.
Many of the countries exhibit the trends and qualities discussed above, such as non-existent or under-funded interpretive programmes. Because they were incorporated into previous sections, and detailed country-level information was largely unavailable, these trends and qualities will not be presented in detail for individual countries. The country reports are not comprehensive, but are included to further illustrate concepts and provide basic background information regarding ecotourism in each of the countries.
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