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The philosophy of ecotourism has been examined by several authors, including Neil (Ecotourism: impacts, potentials and possibilities. Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd. Boston, 1999) and Fennell (Aristotle and the science of nature: unity without uniformity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002). Ecotourism philosophy is dominated by Western thought, thus many valuable lessons can only be learned by deconstructing its meaning to find application in various socio-cultural contexts (Nowaczek et al. in Critical issues in ecotourism: understanding a complex tourism phenomenon. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2007). In the West, perceptions of ecotourism and national parks are influenced by historico-philosophical attitudes to wilderness and nature (Cochrane in Critical issues in ecotourism: understanding a complex tourism phenomenon. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 287–307, 2007).
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Ramírez, F., Santana, J. (2019). Philosophy of Ecotourism. In: Environmental Education and Ecotourism. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01968-6_5
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