Bursting the bubble: the socio-cultural context of ecotourism.(National parks in Dominican Republic and Jamaica; ecotourism)

In the past decade or sum of two units ecotourism has become increasingly visible and significant in a number of ways. It is commonly referr to as the fastest growing sector of the tourism industry; estimates of the amount of cash it generates annually range from $30 billion (Honey 1999: 9) to $12 trillion (Ceballos-Lascurain 1996: 46-8) Early in the 1990 the organization that became the International Ecotourism Society, a combination of trade organization and advocacy assemblage was founded. That same period saw the appearance of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, and in 2002 the Journal