Talk:Ecotourism

why the heck are there dashes all over the place on this page?

--Alex 13:25, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Ecotourism

Ecotourism can and may hurt the environment. People should be more careful about going to other countries and littering carlessly. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.52.194.50 (talk) 22:20, 21 February 2007 (UTC).

All the same this article contains an enormous amount of criticism for ecotourism while the actual tourism contains no criticism at all! Its true that travel is pretty inefficient and can be pretty destructive toward the environment (especially when traveling by jet plane), but do you honestly want people to do nothing but sit around at home content in their clusterphobic cultural bubbles? Surely ALL of eco-tourism can't be bad, surely there are ways of learning and enjoying other cultures and peoples without personally raping half of the amazon (the sense you get from about two thirds of this article). Don't get me wrong, I appreciate criticism sections, but why not offer some positives to offset the negatives, just some examples of what people are doing right alongside what there doing wrong.

I think many people have the preconceived notion that ecotourism is the answer to all the problems of tourism. There is a lot to improve. --Eikenhein 01:19, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Parts of the criticism page seem to violate the NPOV, or at least present criticisms in an unneccessarily hostile manner. Particularly, "What about pushing people onto marginal lands with harsh climates, poor soils, lack of water, and infested with livestock and disease is “enhancing”? The establishment of parks does nothing but create harsh survival realities and deprives the people of their traditional use of land and natural resources." This reads much more like a lecture than an encylopedic phrasing of valid criticism, and if it is a direct quote from one of the references, it should be in question marks, shouldn't it? 142.166.23.42 23:34, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Can whomever put Kamuaro, 2007 throughout the text please cite this reference in full in the References section and link to mentions in the text please. Much of this article is supported with this citation and this author is only listed as having written a much earlier piece. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.219.38.1 (talk) 11:05, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

"Greenwashing" vs. "Green washing"

From what I understand both terms can be used, but I prefer the former because: 1. It is the form found in Webster's and American Heritage dictionaries 2. It is already used throughout the article 3. It is based on the political term "whitewash"

Comments? --Eikenhein 20:57, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Criticism Section

This section reads like a school paper on why ecotourism is bad. The citations lack a certain degree of notability. Instead of a written diatribe against ecotourism supported by other diatribe, statistics should be presented. --Anthropos65 (talk) 13:05, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

It takes up the majority of the article, which is definitely undue weight. We need more information on the negative effects of tourism (the articles tourism and sustainable tourism have remarkably little on this as I write), but this is too much. Richard001 (talk) 05:08, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Introduction

The introduction to this article seems to be overly focussed on how ecotourists are better than everyone else, and all the reasons why. A more encyclopedic introduction would be appreciated. There are also various grammatical and punctuation mistakes in the introduction. 74.92.147.125 (talk) 13:25, 9 March 2009 (UTC)