Yenesew Alene Belew

Community Based Ecotourism: As a Tool for Sustainable Development Yenesew Alene Belew

Ecotourism has become one of the fastest growing sector & popular within the last 20 years in the world in general and Ethiopia in particular. This book focuses on the role of Community Based Ecotourism as a tool for sustainable development in Lake Tana, Ethiopia. ecotourism is a multidimensional stream that envisaged the environmental conservative scheme, local communities' participation and empowerment, local employment opportunities, sustainable and alternative livelihoods for the local communities, fair equity, fair treatment and equal division of wealth among the local communities. As a result, ecotourism is one of the most fashionable and widely acceptable concept and practice here and there across the globe. Above all, this book provides incredible facts and practices of Zegie peninsula, Lake Tana, Ethiopia.