Planeta.com.(2019, July 30) What West Virginia can learn from Ecotourism in the Americas (1999) Retrieved August 25, 2019, from https://planeta.com/west-virginia-1999/ 

 

While West Virginia adopts, ecotourism, and ponders its implications, it also looks to its neighbors to the south as examples to follow. For Virginians, the most important result of ecotourism would be that it provides them with a way to make money, outside of big companies. While protecting the environment is of the utmost importance, there is also the economic factor in play, and people cannot live off of good intentions. Here, the locals want to use ecotourism as a sustainable way to make a profit. 

 

This article gives important insight, for while ecotourism in branded a better form of tourism. Ultimately the goal to make money is the same. In this community, the people see the protection of the environment as a small added bonus, and not as the core principle. They intend to use ecotourism to make money, plain and simple. Ultimately, this article also shows us how the protection of the environment and local economic growth can go hand in hand.