Author(s)

S. Zahedi

Abstract

Sustainable ecotourism is a nature-oriented tourism that maintains a sound relationship with the environment, and contributes to its conservation. Ecological understanding is a prerequisite of sustainable ecotourism. Nature conservation and ecotourism are interdependent. There should be a symbiotic relationship between the two, in which both derive sustainable benefits in a lengthy period of time. In order to decrease natural deterioration, the present ecotourism economic and financial assessment should be challenged. Sustainable ecotourism demands new managerial methods that can estimate both environmental inputs and outputs in every single ecotourism venture and meets the required criteria of both. A triple-bottom-line accounting approach provides a foundation for the assessment of environmental, social, and financial costs and benefits of ecotou

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