article states that local populations should be associated with tourism activities and share equitably in the economic social and cultural benefits they generate and particularly in the creation of direct and indirect jobs resulting from them considering naturebased tourism from a sustainability perspective will inevitably take us to the concept of ecotourism which can be seen as a normative subcategory of naturebased tourism donohoe and needham reviewed definitions and conclude that ecotourism is characterized as naturebased preservative educative sustainable responsible and ethical tourism