%0 Journal Article 
%A Carvalho Junior, Oldemar
%A Birolo, Alesandra Bez
%T Conservation Tourism for the Sustainability of Coastal Areas. Case Study: Otter Project
%D 2019
%@ 2304-0963
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/28738
%X Conservation Tourism can be defined as the segment
of tourism that uses natural and cultural heritage,
through a socio-environmental research project that
promotes the social entrepreneurship of the communities involved. It involves the participation of ecovolunteers and focuses on the experience and education
of protected areas, contributing to the planning, use,
sustainability and conservation of these regions. This
concept is new and does justice to a type of tourism
that, although still incipient in Brazil, has been practiced by serious projects of research and conservation
for years. Their purpose is self-sustainability, based on
social entrepreneurship. The actions focused on conservation tourism described here, have the support of
several partner organizations such as Cybèlle Planète and Secret Planet in France, Frontier in the United Kingdom, ie3Global in the United States, Volunteer World
in Germany, Ecojourney and Intern Brazil in Brazil. The Otter Project is a unique program because it involves
the participation of ecovolunteers. In Brazil, this is rare. Most of the ecovolunteers participating in the Otter
Project come from Europe and the United States. The profile of the ecovolunteer is presented, in order to better understand this niche market. The main objective of the Otter Project’s Ecovolunteer Program is to obtain
labor and financial help in order to be sustainable and independent from government funds. The Ecovolunteer
Program is an important financial source for the research, operations, and maintenance of the facilities located
in the protected area. This work is based on data acquired from 2002 to 2017, in Santa Catarina Island, from
the Otter Project. The most significant non-renewable resources are the inflow from ecovolunteers and the labor
they provide - ecovolunteers with em$66,114.18 and em$25,643.65 to the labor. The research activities at the Project are mainly sustained through the participation of ecovolunteers from different countries, including Brazil.
In this way, the ecovolunteers can also contribute, not only with financial donation, but also through monitoring
of the visited areas. The regular presence of groups formed by researchers, students, and ecovolunteers, provides
collaborative monitoring within protected areas.

%K Biodiversity
%K ecotourism
%K ecovolunteer
%K emergy analysis
%K modelling
%K Biodiversidade
%K ecoturismo
%K ecovoluntário
%K análise emergética
%K modelagem
%~ Universidad de Cádiz