| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 旅遊管理學系旅遊管理碩士班 === 107 === Wildlife tourism is a part of ecotourism and plays an important role in the tourism industry. However, it generates high environmental pressure for the wildlife species. Especially in the wildlife tourism market, sensitive species (or protected species) are targeted. Therefore, how to manage wildlife tourism to achieve sustainable tourism is an important topic of research. This study is based on the case of nighttime ecological frogs watching in the Shanglin community of Dalin Town, Chaiyi County, as the tree frogs (species of Rhacophorus arvalis) in the research area are secondary level protected species, and the bamboo forest inhabited is the main economic crop of Dalin Town. Recently, the community promotes Community Based Ecotourism (CBET) through the concept of six grade industry. How management of ecotourism can sustain the activities? What are the difficulties community encountered in the process of ecotourism? How to overcome the difficulties? The researchers would like to understand all these questions in this study. Therefore, the researchers participate in community activities, and give suggestions to CBET through observation, interviews with stakeholders, literature review and self-reflection on the activities.
The results show that to develop community based ecotourism, we should first empower the community and understand the original intention and objective of ecotourism. Secondly, the economic benefits, introduction of environmental education, and the participation of community residents are important for CBET. Therefore, the community should charge fee for ecotourism. When money comes, the stakeholders should communicate and come to consensus on the distribution of money and the rules of worker dispatch. In addition, the training of narrator is important, but is also difficult for the rural areas like Shanglin. Therefore, the community leading cadres are important for the promotion of CBET. Furthermore, the effectiveness of narrator's commentary should be evaluated each time to ensure that the objective is reached. In terms of management, the safety requirements of tourists, restrictions on the number of tourists, the use of venues, way of flashlight irradiation, and the time of irradiation of target species should be clearly defined to mitigate the negative impact of activities on the environment and ecology. In addition, activity monitoring and evaluation is also a key in CBET. This study found that this is the most common negligence in promoting ecotourism. Therefore, this study suggests that it is necessary for community to introduce external resources, and promote ecotourism sustainably through community empowerment.
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