Οικοτουρισμός: το παράδειγμα της Κόστα Ρίκα

Abstract

At the center of interest lays environment, ecotourism in general and i t ' s application on Costa Rica. Our final goal is to come in touch with the rules that determine this specific topic and the rules that produce the ethical background, that is to say, environmental ethics. We will attempt to study the principals of ecotourism and try to understand the points of success and those of failure by means of economy, culture and environment. We will come to a conclusion by relating to environmental ethics. As an aftereffect, a discussion could start about the application of the ecotouristic model to Greece, i t ' s environments and landscape. The case study of Costa Rica represents a touchstone in the concept of ecotourism. Despite there are many ecotouristic destination around the globe, Costa Rica is one of the pioneer countries that have fully applied such a big scale activity on tourism and at the same time gathers the most characteristi c features of such an activi ty. Meanwhi le, one could argue that ecotourism in Costa Rica forms a distinctively successful example in concerning nvironmental conservation and economic growth.