Ecotourism along Cameroon's coast:Constraints and improvement options

Ecotourism is a young and recent concept in the tourism industry as a whole, emerging in the late 1980s as an alternative to mass tourism with its associated negative impacts like congestion, pollution and environmental degradation. Ecotourism therefore emerged an environmental conservation tool that can be used to attain sustainable development as stipulated by the 1987 Brundtland Report, Our Common Future. Cameroon is refered to as "Africa in miniature" because of her rich and diverse tourism potentials. As elaborated in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) which show cases Cameroon¿s bold vision for long term development published in 2008,the tourism sector was recognised as the 5th top priority for growth and development to drive the country towards emergence in 2035.This book diagnosis ecotourism along Cameroon's coast and proposes possible improvement options in the region that will move this developing country which is in dire need of development in every economic sector to emergence by 2035. It adds a case study of the coast of Cameroon to discussions on the concept and postulate ways to revalorise the activity by policy makers and socio-economic planners.