Ectourism is a new style tourism and one field of applied ecology.Great attentions have been paid to the ecotourism in recent years by investigators from tourism,ecology and other related fields.The present paper systemically discussed the origin,definition,characteristics and theoretical basement of ecotourism,expounded the elements of ecoturism such as ecotourist,ecotourism resources,ecotourism industry and ecotourism environment.We discussed the current research status of ecotourism planning and manage...