Case study ecotourism chalalan ecolodge in bolivia

Question 1

What is ecotourism?

Answer 1

Ecotourism is a form of tourism that preserves the culture of local communities, ensuring that they benefit from the industry, while protecting the natural environment.

Question 2

Ecotourism at Chalalan environmental reason- (there are 4)

Answer 2

Environmentally sustainaible because
Ecolodge made out of rainforest wood, but onky a small amount was cut down and trees were allowed to regrow

Question 3

Ecotourism at Chalalan eco-lodge (social reason)

Answer 3

Socially sustainable because
Today, more than 70 families receive economic benefits from profits and employment.

Community and the locals receive a good of quality of life
Enough money to live happily

Question 4

Ecotourism at Chalalan eco-lodge (economic reason)

Answer 4

Up to 24 employees work as full-time cooks, guides, cleaners, and administrators.

Economically sustainable because Improves economy and provides money for them
Local people don’t need to work in jobs that cause deforestation

Question 5

Ecotourism at Chalalan eco-lodge (economic reason)

Answer 5

Chalalan receives approximately 1000 tourists per year.
Economically sustainable because
Constant flow of tourism creates opportunity for business, hotels and other ways to receive a constant and sustainable way of getting money.

Question 6

Ecotourism at Chalalan eco-lodge (environmental reason)

Answer 6

Solar energy is used to light the lodges.
Environmentally sustainable becuase

You don’t have to rely on fossil fuels or other unsustainable ways of getting power
Sun is sustainable option as it won’t run out of resources

Question 7

Ecotourism at Chalalan eco-lodge (environmental reason)

Answer 7

Liquid waste from showers and the kitchen is treated using the sun and biological processes.

Helps stop and reduce the amount of chemicals going into the nature and disrupting and potentially destroying habitats and ecosystems.

Question 8

What is social sustainability?

Answer 8

To do with people’s way of life, how they live and relate to each other? How they contribute to a healthy society?

Question 9

What is economic sustainability?

Answer 9

To do with money - can people afford to meet their basic needs?

Question 10

What is environmental society?

Answer 10

To do with the natural world - what impact do people’s activities have?

Question 11

The principles that underlie the Protocol are:

Answer 11

1. It classes Antarctica as a place for peace and science
2. It creates rules to protect Antarctica’s emvironment
3. It provides environmental advice to meetings for the Antarctic treaty
4. It creates rules about human impact

Question 12

Some of the Key rules include:

Answer 12

1. The Protocol means that Antarctica’s environment is preserved for scientific research, and its rules ensure that tourism is more sustainable in Antarctica
2. Scientific discoveries have to be shared
3. No nuclear testing allowed (this happens in remote places to limit the impact on humans)
4. No military activity is allowed except to support science or peaceful activities
5. Commercial resource mining is indefinitely banned, except for the purposes of scientific research

Question 13

Advantages of Antarctic Treaty:

Answer 13

1. The ATS has limited environmental damage within Antarctica
2. There has been no armed conflict within Antarctica since the Antarctic Treaty signed
3. Antarctica is a ‘common heritage for mankind’ and should be governed as a ‘World Park’ by the United Nations.
4. The ATS is one of the few international agreements of the 20th century to have succeeded.
5. The ATS has permitted Antarctic science to flourish and many issues of global concern such as the ozone hole have unfolded there
6. The ATS has brought together many different nations. some of whom have been in conflict elsewhere in the world. For example, the USA and the former USSR during the Cold War and the UK and Argentina during the Falklands War
7. The ATS has maintained the spirit of peaceful cooperation in Antarctica

Question 14

Disadvantages of Antarctic Treaty

Answer 14

1. Government by consensus (where everyone has to agree) is a recipe for achieving the least amount at the slowest possible rate of progress.
2. The ATS has only succeeded because the Treaty nations feared what might happen if it failed.
3. Much of the science conducted in Antarctica is poor and is done to disguise territorial claims or potential rights to mineral exploitation
4. The ATS is a ‘rich man’s club’ run by a selectgroup of developed countries for their own benefit.
5. The ATS has focused on the issues that are easily solved, for example scientific cooperation, whilst avoiding fundamental problems such as the competing territorial claims
6. The ATS does not provide and benefits for countries unable to pay for expensive scientific research programmes within Antarctica.

Question 16

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Answer 16

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