The term "ecotourism" in the West was officially used at a conference by Mexican ecologist Hector Ceballos-Laskuraynom in the first half of the 80-ies of XX century. It reflected the idea of agreement between ecology and recreation and has gained a lot of popularity. One of the variants of this definition is the international eco-tourism as an active form of recreation, based on the rational use of natural wealth. It involves the negative response of the cult of comfort, mass communications, accessibility and consumption growing number of travel benefits (unlike for example a tour of realism , which implies immersion in nature and culture while maintaining a high level of comfort).
