Ecotourism is defined as: Businesses that cater to tourists follow special policies to protect the environment, aid the local community and educate travelers.

Unfortunately, there is no universal set of standards on what can pass as Ecotourism. Added to this there are 100 groups that is offering various “eco” certifications and memberships.

This CNN article on Ecotourism gives 4 simple questions that you can ask so you can judge by yourself whether a travel service or hotels is “ecotrourism” or not.

1. How do you conserve resources?
2. How do you protect plants and animals?
3. What do you do to helo the community?
4. What ecotourism activities do you offer?

Go here for the complete article

Several links on Ecotourism in Asia: Gordon’s Guide and Ecotourism Map from Nature.org

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Map was developed by dividing the tourist number (2003) with the general population of the country.

Several numbers:

• In 2003, 665 million international tourist trips were made.
• Meaning 10.7% from world’s population holidayed abroad (some are repeated trips).
• Western Europe is the most popular destination for international tourists, the region receives 46% of world tourist trips.

Map and data are from Worldmapper Tourist Destination. Find more interesting maps on the site: Worldmapper

From the map, we can see that Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia are also a popular tourist destination.

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