To browse Academia. This research examines the construction of language in the field of ecotourism through a number of disciplines and discourses. This bias creates a gap in the literature on ecocritical, discourse analysis and sociolinguistic reviews of ecotourism language Dann, This research is important because it demonstrates how the methods used by discourse and its operations, such as marketing and promotion, are deployed to transform ecological space into a commodity.
Political and cultural discourses position nature as a theme within them to perform a host of utilitarian functions. Creative writing, travel writing, copywriting and poetics all contribute to the methods through which ecotourism is promoted, constructed, understood, consumed and desired. Fundamental to understanding the importance of language in creating the experience and identity of ecotourism is the role of the Internet: its keywords, search engine techniques, consumer feedback capacities and websites.
Websites allow destination managers to create a direct relationship with an international audience of potential guests. By reviewing literature from different disciplines and producing a new set of comprehensive data, I contribute to the literature on ecotourism by demonstrating how it produces and is produced by culture in ways that influence the design and promotion of marketing material by the tourism industry. Ecotourism emerges as a scene conflicted by its construction through multiple disciplines and discourses; creating an ambiguity with political and ideological consequences.
I examine the key themes, discourses and ideologies present in ecotourism and how these interact with the conservation, industry, socio-political and policy agendas implicit in its texts. It has also demonstrated that environmentalism is the dominant discourse and that the military and anthropomorphic metaphors are pervasive. This present paper gives a further contribution to the study of ecotourist meta A rise in the popularity of ecotourism has coincided with voluminous definitional discourse.
Amongst stakeholders, confusion has resulted from the disparate nature of these definitions. In the absence of a common definition or set of key tenets the challenge has been to ensure operational ecotourism that adheres to the theoretical underpinnings of the concept.
