Module Six: Designing Ecotourism Facilities

        Learning Objectives:

Understanding of environmentally sensitive design and sustainable development issues.
Understanding of how facility design may reinforce and enhance the visitors enjoyment and learning.
Ability to discuss the relationship between financial issues and facility size.
Understanding of the use of fantasy, adventure and discovery in ecotourism facility designs.
Understanding the impact and economic issues of using local resources in facility construction.
Ability to define the concept of sustainable design.

To complete this Topic successfully, please complete the following activities in the order shown below:

Textbook Reading: Chapter 5, A Window to the Natural World: The Design of Ecotourism Facilities (pp. 116-133)

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Individual Quiz

Once you have completed the activities in this topic, you should:

Go on to Module Seven: Local Community Involvement and Opportunities.

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