Exam 7: Alternative Tourism

The first step in community engagement is to talk and listen to the host community and businesses.

Mass tourism is firmly grounded in the community development paradigm.

Visitors who generally enjoy meeting new people, expect to learn something new when they travel, appreciate a wide range of activities, seek out challenges, are concerned with social issues, and embrace change

Alternative tourism is often called which of the following?

Most environmentalists generally try to find ways that allow for human use, while still protecting the natural resource as habitat for other species to thrive.

The principle that lands and their natural resources should not be consumed by humans and should instead be maintained in their pristine form

Tourism that is appropriate to the local environment, social and cultural values and that optimizes local decision-making, enhances the local economy and promotes meaningful encounters between tourists and the local community

Which of the following is NOT a type of food tourism?

A social movement that is based on political and ethical views of the environment

In cultural tourism, the cultural heritage resource should be transformed into a spectacle or special event.

One of the primary goals of conservation is to minimize economic impacts through monitoring and best-practice.