Paper abstract:

The environmental protection and husbandry has been always one of the main traditions and cultural values the peoples of Central Asia for many centuries. Thus, when the Green Economy Concept was officially declared and promoted by the Kyrgyz Government, the ecotourism principles have been in a smoothly and quick manner integrated into a working framework of community based tourist services. There are numerous successful examples of sustainable eco-friendly tourist services provided within the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic like the SAKTA ecological movement. Hence, there are also some challenges to completely switch to ecotourism in the country. Ones of the challenges are about a low level of ecological education among rural residents who in order to general more income from tourism can cause drastic harm to the environment by cutting the forest to make ethnic crafted gifts or to construct more guest houses. Therefore, this roundtable allows to share our concerns and get professional and academic advices of international level.