Travel & Experiences
The growing popularity of ecotourism, a still-developing branch of travel that gives tourists an opportunity to help preserve the natural environment and interact with local people, has led to confusion among some consumers because of the sometimes misleading promotional material produced by travel companies eager to take advantage of a hot trend.
March 7, 1993
Paul Kerlinger, director of the Cape May Bird Observatory on New Jersey’s southern tip, says bird-watching tourists contribute about $10 million a year to local businesses.
Nov. 21, 1993
Tourism is on the rise in Belize but it’s not the beer-and-Coppertone crowd that comes to this tiny Central American nation.
April 28, 1991
World & Nation
On the Fijian island of Tavenui, two villages were confronted with a common problem: How to raise money to pay school fees for their children and build better houses for their people.
April 29, 1992
Kathleen Copus has been grappling with “grass is greener syndrome.”
April 2, 2000
The water flowed out of the cave, filling the lagoon and spilling down limestone terraces into the forest below.
April 7, 1996
Here in a rock-rimmed canyon in Oregon’s high desert, tourists are developing respect for the Earth as well as admiration for its rugged beauty.
Nov. 28, 1993
Ecotourism and conservation will be the hot topics Nov. 13-15 when Huntington Beach hosts the fifth annual Watchable Wildlife Conference at the Waterfront Hilton Beach Resort.
Nov. 5, 1996
Grand Teton National Park is glorious in the fall, so what better way to appreciate it than with a new lodging-and-tour package that will take visitors to the park’s back country in search of wildlife.
Sept. 16, 2013
The words “soft adventure” and “ecotourism” are new to the vocabulary of travel, being freely used in promotional material even though their meaning isn’t always clear.
Jan. 28, 1990