السياحة البيئية المستدامة آلية لتجسيد التنمية المستدامة

Abstract EN

Sustainable ecotourism is considered as a way to introduce tourists to the environment and its attraction to an optimal usage of tourist places, that's require a preservation of the environmental balance, the biological and cultural diversity according to a single development equation.

The study aims to demonstrate the importance of tourism in developing the national economy and improving the social conditions of the local population, as well as the relationship between sustainable ecotourism and sustainable development.

So, whenever the environment was clean, fit and healthy, whenever tourism increases and economic development has been achieved.

It is considered as a tremendous source of national income and investment, because it develops the national economy and improves the social conditions of the local population.

Also, relations exchanges between the tourist who resides temporarily in a certain place and the people residing forever in that place, so cultures spread among peoples.

But, tourism is a source of environmental pollution due to behaviour of non-civilized human towards the environment.

In that case, the sustainable tourism includes an optimal usage of natural resources, while mitigating their effects on the environment and preventing any damage between economic activity and the ecosystem, and preserving biological and cultural diversity.

So, that environmental resource services continue in a way that benefits the current and future generations, this is achieved by the international and national competent authorities adopting the principles of sustainable development and linking them with sustainable tourism to solve tourism development problems.

Key words: sustainable tourism, investment, sustainable development, environmental balance, civilization