نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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عنوان مقاله English
نویسنده English
The territory of Iran has many opportunities for sustainable economic exploitation, but the intellectual and functional viewpoint of managers and planners in the past decades has been mainly human-centered. Although this thinking and behavior has satisfied the needs in the short term, in the long term, it leads to the destruction of nature and is unstable. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to introduce ecotourism in the form of two types of geotourism and biotourism as a sustainable management strategy for ecosystem productivity. The current research is a review study and its discussions are based on explaining the principles of responsible nature-based tourism and comparing it with the usual methods of exploiting the natural ecosystems. The results showed that the adverse and destructive consequences of the actions caused by the human-centered view point have killed the souls of mother nature. Therefore, for the restoration and continuation of human life and nature, it is necessary to change the perspective from human-centered to nature-centered and, accordingly, to change unsustainable economic activities to protective behaviors. In this regard, the only activity that can play the dual role of sustainable productivity and protection is ecotourism. Therefore, instead of the usual unstable behavior in natural ecosystems, it is suggested to change the procedure towards sustainable protection activities such as geotourism, biotourism and wellness tourism in the form of nature spas. All the ecosystems of the geographical area of Iran have such capabilities and need sustainable management and planning for the development of ecotourism.
کلیدواژهها English
Weaver, D., Oppermann, M., 2000. Tourism management, Brisbane: John Wiley.
