Ecotourism Development in Protected Areas, Dec 2012
"Ecotourism is environmentally responsible travel and visitation of natural areas and accompanyin... more "Ecotourism is environmentally responsible travel and visitation of natural areas and accompanying cultural features. It is highly growing niche market in tourism industry and protected areas are major areas where ecotourism take place. MzNP is one of protected areas of Ethiopia and located in Gamo gofa zone, SNNPR. This study was done with the objective of describing ecotourism potential of MzNP, examining relevance of future ecotourism development in MzNP and, identifying prospected challenges of ecotourism development in MzNP. The researcher employed mixed research approach and used descriptive research design. Data were collected by using structured questionnaire, structured key informant interview, field observation and secondary sources. The result of this research showed that MzNP has high ecotourism potential in terms of its natural features. But it has moderate potential regarding cultural features, site infrastructure and human resource features. Regarding relevance of future ecotourism development in MzNP, respondents are highly agreed to environmental, economic and socio-cultural relevance of ecotourism development. The result also revealed that main prospected challenges of ecotourism resources of MzNP are livestock grazing, fire disaster, poaching, fire wood collection, land use conflict, inadequate provision of physical infrastructure and tourist facility, and effects of climate change such as desertification, drought, temperature increment and insufficient rainfall.
Key words: Protected area, Maze National Park, Ecotourism, Potential, Relevance, Challenge
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Ecotourism Development in Protected Areas, Dec 2012
"Ecotourism is environmentally responsible travel and visitation of natural areas and accompanyin... more "Ecotourism is environmentally responsible travel and visitation of natural areas and accompanying cultural features. It is highly growing niche market in tourism industry and protected areas are major areas where ecotourism take place. MzNP is one of protected areas of Ethiopia and located in Gamo gofa zone, SNNPR. This study was done with the objective of describing ecotourism potential of MzNP, examining relevance of future ecotourism development in MzNP and, identifying prospected challenges of ecotourism development in MzNP. The researcher employed mixed research approach and used descriptive research design. Data were collected by using structured questionnaire, structured key informant interview, field observation and secondary sources. The result of this research showed that MzNP has high ecotourism potential in terms of its natural features. But it has moderate potential regarding cultural features, site infrastructure and human resource features. Regarding relevance of future ecotourism development in MzNP, respondents are highly agreed to environmental, economic and socio-cultural relevance of ecotourism development. The result also revealed that main prospected challenges of ecotourism resources of MzNP are livestock grazing, fire disaster, poaching, fire wood collection, land use conflict, inadequate provision of physical infrastructure and tourist facility, and effects of climate change such as desertification, drought, temperature increment and insufficient rainfall.
Key words: Protected area, Maze National Park, Ecotourism, Potential, Relevance, Challenge
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Key words: Protected area, Maze National Park, Ecotourism, Potential, Relevance, Challenge
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Key words: Protected area, Maze National Park, Ecotourism, Potential, Relevance, Challenge
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