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Solinas, M.; Clò, S.; Nicosia, M., |
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Eco-volunteering programs as good practices for nature conservation and sustainable tourism development in protected areas |
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2008 |
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Management for Protection and Sustainable Development |
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MMV 4 - Proceedings |
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283-287 |
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Keywords |
MMV4, Eco-volunteering, volunteer tourism, sustainable tourism, environment conservation, protected areas |
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Abstract |
The CTS, an Italian association involved in youth tourism and environment protection, acknowledged by the Ministry of the Environment, has a long experience in the planning and managing of programs in which environmental protection, local development and educational activities are linked. Since the early 90s, CTS started to issue volunteer tourism programs in which conservation and monitoring activities on endangered species were conceived as original features of summer camps for students and young people. This approach provided a new opportunity to support environmental initiatives chronically under-funded and was favourably considered by the European Commission, the Italian Ministry of the Environment and other institutions that granted the funds necessary to allow the projects increase and go on. Two more important results were also achieved: first, the development of tourist offers with a strong educational purpose and a low impact on the local environment; second, the creation of synergies between tourist and conservation programmes which, in turn, allowed to improve the local communities attitude towards research and conservation activities, thanks to the economic advantages generated by just such tourism. The success of the programs lies in the fact that tourist projects were created in harmony with scientific projects and were conceived to support and “serve” the research. |
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ILEN @ m.sokopp @ 1016 |
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2629 |
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