How to plan your durable and responsible ecotourist stay?
THE responsible ECOTOURIST...
Prepare and plans his journey carefully
- By addressing preferably to a promoter of activities or a company, which applies a code of good practices or basic rules to minimizing the environmental impacts.
- By inquiring of particularities and rule concerning the visited environment, to respect it and even to promote it.
- By inquiring particularities, customs and traditions of visited people and by respecting their cultural differences and their private life.
- By contributing to the economic prosperity of the local communities in the purchase of their products and services.
- By being subdivided into small groups from 4 to 6 persons.
- By avoiding the periods of strong frequency.
- By bringing all that it is necessary (clothes and sufficient equipments for the bad weather and the urgencies possible, bags of dustbins, naphtha stove, ground isolation, etc.) to avoid having recourse to the environment.
- By validating that the chosen plan corresponding to the capacity of the weakest of the group.
- By favouring few or non-polluting means of transport.
- By reducing the packaging of provisions before the departure.
THE responsible ECOTOURIST...
Have correctly his waste
- By using, for the dishes and the personal hygiene, the minimal quantity of biodegradable soap in a remote place from any stream.
- By managing his waste according to 3 R (Reduce, Re-use and Recycling).
- By depositing and by burying excrements in a deep hole from 15 to 20 cm and remote from any source of water, when the facilities are non-existent.
- By always bringing back his waste and hygienic products in a foreseen place for that purpose.
THE responsible ECOTOURIST...
Moves and camps on durable surfaces
- By staying on the existing paths.By walking in single file in the middle of the path even if it is muddy for not to widen it.
- By stopping and by camping on the indicated sites.
- By avoiding to wide the camp and concentrating the activities where the vegetation is absent.
THE responsible ECOTOURIST...
Minimize the fires impact
- By considering first of all, some alternatives like naphtha stove and lantern.
- By maintaining a small fire and only in an indicated place.
- By collecting on the ground only some died wood that we can break with hands, if the rule and the indication of fire allow it.
- By making sure that the fire is well and truly put out before the departure and that we can manipulate ashes in the heart of the hole with hands.
THE responsible ECOTOURIST...
Leave intact what he discovers
- By not modifying the natural environment (remove the bark, the graffiti, the orientation marks on trees, construction of furniture or ditch, etc.)
- By taking no artefact or other interesting element for all (cliffs, horns, shells, flowers, mushrooms, etc.)
- By not introducing a non native sorts.
THE responsible ECOTOURIST...
Respect the fauna
- By not feeding animals. Filter the dishwater and deposite solids with waste before scattering it far from the camp.
- By storing provisions and waste in a sure place or in at least four metres in the airs.
- By not penetrating into the animal concentration zones : sites of nesting or spawn, areas of seclusion or wintering, etc.
- By observing the fauna at a sufficient distance to not modify the behaviour of the animal.
THE responsible ECOTOURIST...
Respect the other guests
- By moving in the peace, especially in the approach of the other guests to whom he gives up the passage.
- By avoiding clothes and equipments of lively colours, except for the security.
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