自然保护区开展生态旅游的意义及潜在风险

Significance and Potential Risks of Ecotourism of Nature Reserve

生态旅游是一种以人与自然和谐共生的生态系统为对象,以可持续旅游为原则,通过对它的保护性利用,使游客、当地居民以及旅游经营者都受益,并能使大众受到环境教育的一种旅游形式。在我国,自然保护区开展生态旅游具备很多有利条件。首先,自然保护区的生态景观多样,生物多样性丰富,生态旅游资源的利用潜力巨大;其次,自然保护区建设已由数量发展向质量提升转变,客观上有开展生态旅游的需要;此外,国家"十二五"规划中第一次提出了"全面推动生态旅游",这预示着生态旅游大发展的时代已经到来。在当前形势下,在我国自然保护区开展生态旅游切实可行,意义重大,但也具有潜在风险。

Ecotourism is an ecosystem in harmony with nature, the principle of sustainable tourism, through its protective use, so that visitors, local residents and tour operators have benefited, and will enable the public by the environmental education a form of tourism. In China, the nature reserve to carry out ecotourism has a lot of favorable conditions. First, the nature reserve＇s ecological landscape is diverse, rich in biodiversity, ecotourism resources with great potential; Second, the construction of nature reserve has a number of development to enhance the quality change, the need to carry out ecotourism objective; in addition, the ＂12th five-Year Plan＂ for the first time presented ＂comprehensively promote ecotourism＂, which indicates that the great ecotourism development time has come. Under the current circumstances, it is practicable to carry out ecotourism in nature reserves in China. It is of great significance, and there are also potential risks.