ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how community-based ecotourism, grounded in aspects of eco-utilitarism and alternative views, can be reinvigorated for local green tourist development by the philosophies of scholars in using the theory of global, local ecosystems and deep ecology. It argues that alternative thinking adds social and cultural value to the sustainability of community-based ecotourism endeavors, local stakeholder's forms of management and negotiation of tourist sites and eco-conscious travellers. The chapter examines the key policy issues to ecotourism, including the mechanisms discussion to ensure that it does not exceed its sustainable base in moving toward understanding the provision of infrastructure for development, the policy and institutional prerequisites for planning and managing the activity. It suggests that if we are to see the survival of the ideals of protected areas, they must have an eco-utilitarian orientation based on the commons, for all life, and a deep ecology value based on the interdependence of all life on Earth within contemporary societies.
