Tourism In The Rainforest!!!
Tourism In The Amazon
Tourism, one of the world’s largest industries, employs more than 235 million people worldwide and generates some 9.2 percent of the global GDP. While tourism is a vital source of income for many developing countries, it can also result in pollution, deforestation, inefficient energy use and cultural exploitation.With one of the most diverse and delicate ecosystems in the world, the Amazon rain forest is a favorite of adventurous travelers. The vegetation is so dense and vast it supplies 20 percent of the world's oxygen. At the center of the rain forest is the 4,080-mile-long Amazon River, which sustains thousands of species of mammals, birds and insects as well as more than 200,000 people. Tourism in the Amazon is a thriving industry that provides both serene and adventurous experiences.
Benefits
Tourism is a potential solution to poverty by creating work and entrepreneurial opportunities, and to extinctions by making rainforest life more valuable through ecotourism over the past 20 years there has been a rapid increase in nature travel. Ecotourism in the Amazon Rainforest can be very profitable, as one Amazon-ecotour-cluster demonstrated by generating US$11.6 million in 2005.
Problems
- Unsustainable tourism is a major problem for rainforest areas, according to the Global Development Research Center website. Traditional tourism companies do not take into account the damage they are doing by bringing masses of visitors into a delicate area like a rainforest. But ecotourism and other sustainable tourism efforts work to provide low environmental impact tourism to consumers in the rainforests. Ecotourism is centered on leaving nature alone as much as possible and refraining from interference with local culture.