Is it possible to be an eco-friendly tourist?
Summery:
To promote the ecotourism, the author Lucy Siegle mentions about the truth that many people use ecotourism as the way to make money indeed; for example, swimming with captive dolphins in Japan actually accompanies with the annual dolphin slaughter. Besides, it provides us the ideas about the typical eco-traval holiday may include to introduce the Amazon rainforests with a simple and easy way or staying in a lodge in Peru built with native materials and owned by the local commuity.
In Ecotourism and Sustainable Development:Who Owns Paradise?, the book writed by Martha Honey argues the real ecotourism should be aware on how many tourists a habitat can sustain. The attitudes to promote the ecotourism should be democratic and spontaneous, thus, even use the simple and nature way travelors could not only enjoy a high quality trip and also protect the environment at the same time.
*New vocabulary:
1.masquerade(n.)化妝舞會
2.pejorative(v.)貶損的
3.hybrid(n.)合成物;混合物
4.laundry(n.)洗衣店;洗衣物
5.habitat(n.)棲息地;生活環境
6.incense(v.)激怒
7.bogus(a.)假的
8.monopoly(n.)獨占
9.lodge(n.)鄉間小屋
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/22/lucy-siegle-eco-friendly-tourism
