Some Suggestions for Community-Based Ecotourism Management

Ecotourism is an important development trend of the tourist industry in the future as well as the inevitable choice for the tourism destination to realize the sustainable development. Community participation is one of the optimal modes to realize the above-mentioned goals. Based on the sustainable development theory of tourism, ecotourism theory and so on, the basic theories of ecotourism development are studied in this paper. From the viewpoint of community-based ecotourism management, some measures on community-based ecotourism development in China are illuminated systematically. The community-based ecotourism management will be advantageous for optimizing the economic structure of the community, protecting the ecological resources and environment, maintaining the traditional culture of the community and improving the environmental protection consciousness of the local residents, which is an effective approach to realize the sustainable development of the community-based ecotourism destination.