FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs)

1.   What is responsible tourism?
Responsible tourism is a way of conducting tourism business and activities by governments, private sectors, tourists and communities that look for increasing benefits at the same time minimises negative impacts on the nature, socio-cultural and economic of the focused destination region throughout the various stages of the tourist experience.

2.   What is responsible travel?
Responsible travel is a way of traveling that emphasises the importance of personal exchanges, leading to deeper cultural understanding, genuine benefit to local people and their communities, preservation of the environment, and ultimately a more peaceful and equitable world. Click here to learn more about how to be a responsible traveller.

3.   What is ecotourism?
According to the Quebec Declaration on Ecotourism, ecotourism "embraces the principles of sustainable tourism and the following principles which distinguish it from the wider concept of sustainable tourism:

• contributes actively to the conservation of natural and cultural heritage,
• include local and indigenous communities in its planning, development and operation, contributing to their well-being,
• interprets the natural and cultural heritage of the destination to visitor,
• lends itself better to independent travellers, as well as to organised tours for small size groups".

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