综合一区欧美国产,99国产麻豆免费精品,九九精品黄色录像,亚洲激情青青草,久久亚洲熟妇熟,中文字幕av在线播放,国产一区二区卡,九九久久国产精品,久久精品视频免费

Going beyond tourism

By Chen Liang ( China Daily ) Updated: 2015-07-11 08:15:07

Going beyond tourism

A participant of EcoAction's giant panda tour feeds a giant panda as a volunteer at the Bifengxia Giant Panda Breeding Center in Sichuan. [Photos Provided To China Daily]

Not cheap

A typical product, such as the elephant tour or the giant panda tour, is a 7-9 day package with 15 participants and charges about 9,000 yuan per person, not including air fares.

"Our tours are not cheap, because we need to pay for experts' lectures and guiding services and we will also give back part of the income to the local communities," Luo says.

For example, the company pays more than 20,000 yuan to the head of Daoying village within the Yinggeling National Nature Reserve. The village head arranges for villagers to participate in the tour, some as motorcycle drivers, others as tour guides, some to cook for the group and others to provide free boarding to the visitors.

"After paying for these people's services, we ask the village head to use the surplus to improve the village's infrastructure and make public how the funds have been used to other villagers."

In Beijing, EcoAction promotes one-day nature education excursion among the city's schools and its star product is the bird watching tour.

Townshend, a native Englishman living in Beijing, is the tour leader. Townshend is a bird watcher with birding experience of more than 30 years and started a blog called "Birding Beijing" since he came to the city in 2010. He has spearheaded efforts to save some of China's most endangered birds. In 2012 the 44-year-old became a Species Champion with BirdLife International.

Besides guiding the birding tour, he led the Hainan tour in early this year together with Luo Peng and gave free lectures about bird watching in schools in Beijing. "Speaking to Chinese children, I hope to inspire them to develop a lifelong interest in nature. They are tomorrow's decision-makers and if the natural world is deeply-rooted, they will make the best decisions for China and its environment," Townshend says.

Now working as a freelance consultant in the field of environmental regulation, Townshend says he will like to become a full-time employee of the company. For Luo Peng, her eco-tourism business is a big challenge. "Our business is quite promising. But we need to get more people know of our tours."

Previous Page 1 2 3 4 Next Page

Editor's Picks
Hot words

Most Popular
...
巴林左旗| 贵州省| 基隆市| 迁西县| 台北县| 青铜峡市| 岳阳市| 五指山市| 边坝县| 湖口县| 托里县| 怀远县| 淄博市| 容城县| 海城市| 济阳县| 丹寨县| 道孚县| 四会市| 博兴县| 贞丰县| 进贤县| 大石桥市| 沁阳市| 上饶市| 山东省| 巫溪县| 鹿泉市| 桐乡市| 班戈县| 洪泽县| 黄平县| 镇坪县| 灵石县| 兰考县| 咸阳市| 斗六市| 民丰县| 乡城县| 颍上县| 麦盖提县|