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Ecotourism
What is ecotourism? According to Wikipedia - Ecotourism (also known as ecological tourism) is responsible travel to fragile, pristine, and usually protected areas that strives to be low impact and (often) small scale. It purports to educate the traveller; provide funds for ecological conservation; directly benefit the economic development and political empowerment of local communities; and foster respect for different cultures and for human rights. Ecotourism is held as important by those who participate in it so that future generations may experience aspects of the environment relatively untouched by human intervention. Most serious studies of ecotourism including several university programs now use this as the working definition.
Ecotourism may appeal to ecologically and socially conscious individuals. Generally it focuses on volunteering, personal growth and environmental responsibility. Ecotourism typically involves travel to destinations where flora, fauna, and cultural heritage are the primary attractions. One of the goals of ecotourism is to offer tourists insight into the impact of human beings on the environment, and to foster a greater appreciation of our natural habitats.
Responsible ecotourism includes programs that minimize the negative aspects of conventional tourism on the environment and enhance the cultural integrity of local people. Therefore, in addition to evaluating environmental and cultural factors, an integral part of ecotourism is the promotion of recycling, energy efficiency, water conservation, and creation of economic opportunities for local communities.
Ecotourism can be as simple as modifying the travel you already do. Sometimes it's as simple as choosing a different mode of transportation - airplanes have a huge pollutant impact compared to train or bus. Or choosing a local inn that watches water conservation versus staying at a big chain hotel. Traveling to enjoy nature can retooled to have the least amount of impact on the environment, from camping in designated areas and not disturbing the natural flora and fauna to touring the sights with a responsible tour guide.
It helps to do research on the locale of your stories. Understanding the culture and traditions will help authenticate your scenes and characters. When writing travel stories or scenes, encourage readers to build cultural and environment awareness and respect for other countries and their people. Tours and retail people are there to provide a service, but are not servants to the tourist's every whim. The opposite and lack of respect could be shown with an antagonist. I'm not recommending getting all preachy and forcing morality on your readers, but simple reminders through your characters can gain kudos for your work. Write on!
This month's question: How do you research places you've never been?
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Excerpt: But that’s why Jim took a job with the lumber company. He always said he couldn’t remember its name, and we never asked (we really suffered from a depressing lack of curiosity as kids). It was one of those big companies that cuts down trees on a huge scale, sometimes for the wood, sometimes just to clear the land. It sounds like a bizarre place for an environmentalist, but they hired Jim as an environmental consultant.
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Excerpt: I along with eleven others were picked to go to on a trip to hike and climb Mt. Capitan. One part of the trip was hitching a ride from the campus we were at to the location near Roswell, New Mexico. Staci would be taken there by car so she could help with the preparations for the rest of the students coming in.
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Excerpt: Who would have thought she'd need a vacation from her vacation? Clothes askew, hair tangled; all Jennifer wanted was a shower and a bed. It hadn't been a vacation. It had been a brief visit to hell.
Excerpt: Luxuriant landscape, / laureled lines, / loftily lose longing, / lovely Lobella...
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Excerpt: As totalitarian as a cloud of locusts, hail, or wind-driven wildfire, / crews with chain saws and cherry-pickers converge daily along the rail right of way
Excerpt: Kaylee watched the balloon bob up and down in the distance as Jacob found the right bush to pee on. The wind blew her fine, blond hair and the strong smell of dead fish rushed up her nose.
Excerpt: Then he moved his vision to the left, the green mealies were showing off their seed plumes high up into the air with full-pipped cobs hanging onto long stalks … promises of a bumper crop.
Excerpt: the shimmer of the honeycreepers, / their curve and thrust of beak,
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Excerpt: Something casts a shadow over me. I look up. It is the human face again. I cower behind a lilac petal. The human reaches its finger to me. It comes to rest just near me. The finger looks soft and gentle. I look up into the face. It gives me an expectant look. It wants me to climb onto the finger. I look back at the finger.
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This month's question: How do you research places you've never been?
Last month's question: What cuisine appeals to you the most, and why?
AngelFire  replied: I love anything Italian or Meditarranean because I imagine myself sitting on the balcony of a villa on the Amalfi coast sipping Limoncello. What better life would there be?
The Huntress ~ Finding Love said: Japanese! It is always so beautiful to look at, the flavors so complex yet simultaneously straight-forward. And the cooking techniques are so old, but work so well they have not needed to change. Poetry in my mouth!
LJPC - the tortoise answered: Hi Leger - Great newsletter! Making a foreign (or alien) world athentic is a big challenge. You were right about attention to detail. If the writer keeps the five senses in mind as they research, and tries to find a person who's actually been to the country to run things past, then the result is usually good. Thanks for the insights and the interesting highlighted items.  - Laura
scribbler says: All food. It's all delicious and wonderful to describe on a page. Maybe that's just because I'm always hungry...
JACE - House Targaryen  sent: To heck with writing--I'm heading out to dinner.  Now this advice is really food for thought (sorry, Leger, you know I couldn't resist). It's such a simple concept; I'll have to try this out ... soon.
Curtis Lee Cancino submitted: In response to "A Culinary Adventure" I thought I would share "Invalid Item" with you. I can't say that I did not do a whole lot of research for this story since the restuarant scene (the majority of the story) is based upon everyday expreience. Actually, my inspriation for this story came from when I used to work in the food industry. I would think about some of the (literally) off-the-wall makeshift weapons a person would have in a kitchen. Either way, I thought the setting fit the topic of this particular newsletter. -Curtis
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