Ecotourism Statistical Fact Sheet

The reason why I interested this article because in this article there are several informations which relate to ecotourism. They had infomations from past until last decade. They can define that which status who usally paricipate in ecotourism.

According to The World Tourism Organization (1999), they estimated that there were over 663 million international travelers. It worth more than 453 billion dollars and grow by 4.1 percent next 20 years. It reaching 1.6 billion travelers in 2020. It make nearly 200 million jobs or 10 percent of global job. Since 1988 until 1994 it grown from 393 million travelers or 336 billion dollars to 528.4 million travelers or 416 billions dollars. Most travelers had this appearances which are middle age, men equal to women and high education. They prefer to go wildernes setting, wildlife viewing and hiking or treaking . In South Africa, from 1986 until last decade, it grown from 454,428 travelers to 5,898,000 travelers. It grown 1o8 percent per year.(The International Ecotourism Society, 2000).

In my opinion, according to the article they show that ecotourism is effecting to economics in those countries. They show that tourism helps people have more job than no tourism.

The International Ecotourism Society.(2000) Ecotourism statistical fact sheet. The International Ecotourism Society. Retrieved October 25, 2010,from http://www.active-tourism.com/factsEcotourism1.pdf