Management Of Eco Tourism And Its Perception A Case Study Of Belize Link __hot__ -

Finally, the management system is consistently hampered by a lack of enforcement capacity. As a Belizean forest official admitted in a discussion about managing tourism sites, "The Forest Department is not equipped to do that. And they don't have the personnel to be doing the monitoring of the area". This reliance on concessionaires and NGOs to manage sites is a pragmatic solution, but it also represents a devolution of state responsibility. Concessions help afford tourism and maintain sites, but they also create a system where the primary enforcer of environmental standards may be a private, for-profit entity.

stands as a global leader in ecotourism, with the industry contributing approximately 12% of the national GDP Finally, the management system is consistently hampered by