What are the main functions of ecotourism?

Eco-tourism is a brand-new tourism industry, which is generated and advocated for the impact of tourism on the environment. In 1988, eco-tourism is defined as a special form of conventional tourism, that is, tourists enjoy beautiful scenery and wildlife while enjoying and visiting ancient and modern cultural heritage. The concept of eco-tourism in this period refers to a simple and natural tourism concept. More and more tourists prefer to go to nature rather than spend their holidays in modern cities and beaches, and emphasize the development of natural landscape in the development of tourism. 65438-0993 International Ecotourism Association defines ecotourism as a tourism activity with dual responsibilities of protecting the natural environment and maintaining the lives of local people. The connotation of eco-tourism emphasizes the protection of natural landscape and is a kind of sustainable tourism. Eco-tourism should not be at the expense of the environment, but should live in harmony with nature. It must make the opportunity for contemporary people to enjoy the natural and human landscape of tourism equal to that of future generations, that is, it should not deprive future generations of the opportunity to enjoy the same tourism resources at the expense of contemporary people's enjoyment and sacrifice of tourism resources, or even build and provide new human landscape for future generations without destroying the human and natural landscape created by predecessors. In addition, in the whole process of eco-tourism, tourists must be given vivid and concrete ecological education. True eco-tourism is a high-level tourism education activity to learn and protect nature. Pure profit-making activities run counter to eco-tourism. At the same time, eco-tourism is also a green industry with high technology content, which needs multidisciplinary demonstration from ecologists, economists and sociologists before it can be put into production. We should seriously study the carrying capacity of ecological environment and tourism resources. Otherwise, it will cause irreversible interference and destruction to the fragile ecosystem. At the same time, eco-tourism should focus on environmental education, scientific popularization and spiritual civilization construction, and truly make eco-tourism a big school for people to learn, love and protect nature. The goal should be to protect the local natural ecological and cultural traditional tourism resources in order to continue the tourism industry. At present, in-depth tourism and adventure tourism, which are gradually prevailing in China, mainly focus on development rather than protection, such as developing new routes, repackaging old scenic spots with ecological explanations or experiencing aboriginal culture, in order to attract more tourists and stimulate the development of local industries. Although this kind of travel is often labeled as eco-tourism, the connotation of eco-tourism may not be taken into account, that is, promoting ecological protection and continuing local traditions may be completely ignored. It seems naive to think that eco-tourism can promote ecological protection by allowing tourists to watch more wild animals and plants, and that local traditions can be preserved by allowing tourists to taste local traditional foods and watch folk cultural relics performances! Eco-tourism is a small and beautiful way of tourism. When a large number of tourists are introduced into a primitive ecosystem, it is easy to disturb the local animals and plants, and it is also easy to exceed the load that the local ecology can bear. When a large number of tourists flock to a traditional aboriginal community, the money culture brought may lead to the commercialization of local cultural traditions, which will be transformed into consumable goods. In addition, a large number of contacts between China culture and aboriginal culture in a short period of time may also lead to conflicts and even more complicated social problems. Therefore, many naturalists and sociologists call on tourism development to carefully evaluate and prevent the positive and negative effects that recreational activities may have on the natural ecology and local residents. Some tourists also realize that only by protecting natural and cultural tourism resources can tourism develop sustainably. Therefore, eco-tourism is not only about understanding the recreation process of wildlife ecology, but its ultimate goal should be to protect the natural resources and cultural traditions of local natural ecology in order to continue tourism.