Eco resorts are destinations that prioritize the conservation of the Earth’s environments and ecosystems. Ecotourists visit threatened habitats to learn about sustainability and conservation. Many eco resorts offer volunteer opportunities to assist in studying wildlife and indigenous peoples. Tourists are educated in responsible and ecologically respectful behaviors to minimize their environmental impact. Ships and boats provide ample ways to communicate with nature while experiencing varying levels of overnight stays.
An eco resort is a lodging, dining and entertainment destination where the central goal is the conservation of the Earth’s environments and living ecosystems and the interconnected networks of life forms within those environments. Vacationers leave their structured lives behind and work for a diverse assortment of venues, usually all-inclusive with lodging and meals, such as land-based facilities, cruises, or threatened ecosystems reserved for wildlife encounters. Accommodations range from luxury lodging to backpacking in wilderness areas with your own tent and supplies.
Another name for a vacationer who goes to an eco-resort is an ecotourist. Ecotourism includes travel to threatened habitats, where tourists learn about the conservation and sustainability of the natural world to coexist in complex ecosystems that have survived for millennia without industrialized human encroachment. Destinations are as vast as the Arctic regions, the Amazon rainforest, the African savannahs with their endangered mammals or the Galapagos Islands from which Charles Darwin developed his theories on the laws of natural selection, the process by which ecosystems and the species within those ecosystems change.
Many eco resorts bring volunteer tourists to areas where ecosystems are under threat, enabling them to help field biologists, conservationists and anthropologists study wildlife and indigenous peoples. Sponsors of such trips can be found within university systems, environmental societies, and private travel agencies that specialize in nature-friendly tours. Student volunteers assist researchers in studying species within a unique and possibly endangered environment. At an ecological wilderness resort, students can sometimes earn college credit by working with researchers to identify local plants and animals.
Seminars and practical experiences educate the tourist in responsible and ecologically respectful behaviors that support the eco resort area. Whether tackling it with overnights in tents or hiking, skiing or kayaking through remote areas from lodge to lodge, small groups with well-trained guides learn how to minimize their environmental impact. Just as the different organisms within ecosystems must support each other, so human interactions with Earth’s environments must do the same, leaving the smallest possible ecological footprint. Eco resorts train tourists to manage their impact on the environment, helping them understand the limits that the carrying capacity of an environment places on any species introduced into it, including humans. Regulating populations of invasive species, managing fires, managing floods, and conserving and maintaining aquifers help tourists integrate this knowledge into their lifestyles at home.
Approximately 75% of the ecological regions of interest on Earth are in or around oceanic environments, so ships and boats provide ample ways to communicate with nature while experiencing varying levels of overnight stays. Windjammers or small inland cruises that encourage kayaking or nature walks can educate tourists about protecting ecologically endangered islands, inland tributaries and ocean environments. For those Earth-friendly tourists who are more risk-averse, large cruise ships present lectures and seminars, sightseeing and photography as an alternative to the crude.
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