Recently environmental activities has been developing very rapidly.According to World Tourism Organization (WTO), the proportion of eco-tourism by 2000 had reached 10-20% of the global tourism market. Recognizing the global importance of this phenomenon, the United Nations declared 2002 International Year of Eco-tourism.
were designed development activities of different types of eco-tourism - Hot, ethnic, corporate, family, country and other outcomes associated with development of ecotourism have been submitted and evaluated by the World Summit, which took place in May 2002 in Quebec (Canada). At the same time there was a workshop on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development of the MAB / UNESCO. In October 2002, in Rome, held a working meeting on tourism in the framework of the European Meeting of the MAB / UNESCO.
In the International Year of Eco-tourism in Russia and Ukraine, in many regions were carried out various activities, including workshops to address specific regional issues in development of this branch of the tourist activity.One way to attract businesses and businessmen of the capital used to organize the proposal organize corporate holiday in Moscow to show the prospects of development of ecological tourism.
Unfortunately, some of them were pronounced kampaneysky and not brought any tangible benefits. The main reason for poor performance exchange of experts (practitioners and theorists of tourism, ecologists, managers, and others) was the lack of sustainable funding for this specific type of tourist activity budgets of all levels. Nevertheless, the problems of eco-tourism has once again succeeded in attracting public attention. Let us hope for a speedy resolution of the issues raised and embodied in the practice of tourism proposals reviewed.
remains a fear - that attract huge numbers of tourists to one or another nature reserve, or unique natural ecological community will accelerate its destruction. However, we Red caves believe that hiding information from the travel industry managers and employees of travel agencies, people's organizations engaged in tourism routes for your organization or just for your family, not productive. The rest depends on us - we must learn to respect nature and enjoy its beauty without causing any damage because the eco-tourism - a unique species and methods of cognitive travels and adventures of varying difficulty for which the main resource is the Natural environment.