15.3.3.1 Relevance of Ecotourism with Forests and Other Resources
The Most Negative Impact of Ecotourism Activities on the Habitat
As a result of the survey, the following were indicated as the reason by the villagers: destruction of the forest and land use problems (8.2 %), destruction of farmland and forbiddance of hunting (3.3 %), pollution of streams (41 %), damage to the soil and the flora (11.5 %), and waste materials problem (23 %).
As a result of the chi-square compliance test, conducted to see whether the frequencies of the classes created as regards the results of the classification of the
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Table 15.7 Chi-square results of the distribution of negative impacts of ecotourism activities on the habitat
Source: Aydin (2010) aO cells, (,0%) have expected frequencies less than 5. The minimum expected cell frequency is 12,2. |
most important negative impact of ecotourism activities on the environment, it can be seen from Table 15.7 that the H0 hypothesis is rejected with 95 % statistical reliability and that there is significant difference between the answers (chi-square calculation = 24,984, p < 0.05).
