Throughout this school year, we have been conducting research, performing interviews, and working on the different details needed for our final product. We have been doing these things in order to learn about ecotourism in San Diego as well as inform the surrounding community about the importance of eco tourism and what we can do to help. Our final product -in order to complete such goal- was to create a book. In this book, we highlight different organizations, restaurants, and hotels in the Southern California area. With this we are able to show locals and tourists that we can still do things we like and help the environment while doing so.
Ecotourism: tourism that involves travel to a natural destination in order to support conservation efforts and respect the local culture in a given place while not damaging the environment.
Ecotourism: tourism that involves travel to a natural destination in order to support conservation efforts and respect the local culture in a given place while not damaging the environment.
- Travel to a natural destination
- Spread awareness
- Minimize impact to the environment
- Raises financial benefits to local residents
- Raises financial benefit for conservation efforts
- Respects local culture
- Respects democratic/human rights movement
Study site: Imperial beach
Throughout this project, we were assigned different study sites. We visited these study sites in order to collect data on the following: trash, pH, pollution, and ecotouristics organizations -great for people to have fun while also helping the environment. Below is an attached document about my experience in my field site.
Through out this project, we have been able to visit many different places, and have been a part of a variety of activities we would have never been able to experience somewhere else.
For the completion of this project, we were all assigned a role. My role for this project was the design group. We were in charge of all the graphic design and art work that was needed to make the book better and add make it stand out. here are some of the pieces I worked on:
I considered this project to be an eye opener for me. I have always known that having environmental awareness is an essential thing, but not until this year -and finishing this project- did I truly see the impact we have made. I liked how different aspects to create our final product where established, this helped people work on things they were interested in with a great amount of willingness.