Compléter Complete the textVersion en ligne Ecotourism par Juan Jose Viveros 1 beach environment forest vegetables hotel fruit water recycle newspapers tourism aerosol sprinklers guests damage bottles handicrafts sprays chains restaurant shops native Ecotourism by Linda Baxter Imagine the scene . You're sitting in the hot sunshine beside the swimming pool of your international luxury hotel , drinking your imported gin and tonic . In front of you is the , reserved for with motor boats for hire . Behind you is an 18 - hole golf course , which was cleared from the and is kept green by hundreds of . Around the hotel are familiar international and the same that you have at home . You've seen some local people - some of them sell local outside the hotel . You bought a small wooden statue and after arguing for half an hour you only paid a quarter of what the man was asking . Really cheap ! Is this your idea of heaven or would you prefer something different ? Nowadays , many of us try to live in a way that will the as little as possible . We our and , we take public transport to get to work , we try to buy locally produced and and we stopped using years ago . And we want to take these attitudes on holiday with us . This is why alternative forms of are becoming more popular all over the world .