Eco-minded Travel Tips From an Environmental Anthropologist

The marketing word "ecotourism" can be misleading and unreliable. For truly sustainable travel tourism, try looking for these terms and models instead.

By Tree Meinch
Dec 15, 2022 8:00 PMDec 15, 2022 8:05 PM
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In the world of sustainable travel, the term ecotourism is a slippery fish. Just take it from environmental anthropologist Amanda Stronza, who wrote her Ph.D. about the term back in 1999, roughly a decade after the “ecotourism” idea was coined.

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