Eco what?

Ecotourism is a form of tourism that appeals to ecologically and socially conscious people. Ecotourism focuses on volunteering, personal growth, and learning new ways to live on the planet. It typically involves travel to destinations where flora, fauna, and cultural heritage are the primary attractions. Ecotourism is extremely popular with the many tourists visiting the extensive national parks and protected areas around the country. Costa Rica is recognized as one of the few with real ecotourism. Since the 1990s Costa Rica has become famous for ecotourism and national parks. In terms of 2008 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index, Costa Rica reached the 44th place in the world ranking, being the first among Latin American countries.
On this trip we have experience a lot of ecotourism. We traveled to two coffee plantations so far that showed a lot of flora and fauna (huge gross bugs).
The world´s largest service industry is tourism. The developing nations of Central America, with its cloud forests, active volcanoes, and wide variety of flora and fauna, are taking advantage of the growing demand for ecotourism. Costa Rica is leading this trend. The idea behind ecotourism is to preserve a nation's natural resources while profiting from them. However, their ecotourism industry is starting to become ecologically damaging with the growing supply of tourists. Unlimited numbers of tourists are allowed into Costa Rica. They should put a cap on how many should be allowed to come in or their multibillion dollar industry will collapse when their rain forests and animals deplete. With tourism there is an increase in garbage problems.
Costa Rica is a prime location for tourists because of its biodiversity, environment, and location (five hour airplane flight from Ohio). A quote that one of our speakers told: "We humans fight war against nature forgetting that we will be the losers."