Reponsible Travel

ANDA activity falls in this sense: all circuits are designed to contribute to the development of the communities visited and preserve the environment. The tours organized by the company seeking to generate a more equitable distribution of benefits generated by tourism sectors reaching those most in need.

But what exactly is meant by responsible and sustainable tourism? What elements should be considered to address the activity in this way?

According to WWF, responsible tourism is "one that meets the needs of tourists, while supporting environmental conservation and improving the welfare of local people. It adapting tourism and interest in contextual situations destination, while helping to enhance benefits and reduce the negative impacts of tourism on the environment into which it develops. "

For the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the development of sustainable tourism practices applies to all forms of tourism in all destinations, including mass tourism and various tourism segments. Explains the Court the very beginning of sustainability relate to both environmental and economic aspects and socio-cultural tourism development. To ensure sustainability of the activity in the long term should then establish a balance between these three dimensions. In this sense, sustainable tourism should:

* Make best use of environmental resources, maintain ecological processes essential and helping to conserve natural heritage and biodiversity;

• Respect the socio-cultural authenticity of host communities, preserving cultural heritage and traditions and contribute to intercultural understanding and tolerance
• Ensure viable economic operations and long term, the benefits are distributed among stakeholders fairly, including stable employment, income opportunities and social services to host communities while contributing to the reduction of poverty.

From the Department of Environment and Sustainable Development also raised the need for a tourist activity conducted under these principles and warn that ill-conceived expansion of tourism can have a number of factors harmful to nature, culture and capital human destinies. As tourism is related to a number of economic sectors, states that achieve a sustainable tourism should be the goal of all those involved in the activity. "All tourism stakeholders have an obligation to ensure the sustainable management of tourism infrastructure in order to create a favorable position to benefit not only tourists but also to the organizing agencies, local people and the place of destination, as Broader.