Amazon Interactive The Ecotourism Game Organize a small group to run the ecotourism project Agustínrecruits you, Pedro, and Fernando, all men in the 20s, to run the ecotourismproject. You put up signs in tourist hotels in the market town and senda few to relatives in Quito to be posted in hotels there. Within weeks, tourists start to arrive. You take them on walks in therainforest and swimming in the waterfall. They seem like good people whoare sincerely curious about the forest and the Quichua. Though you're nervousabout doing a good job, you enjoy the tourists and even make a few friends. But you need a place for them to sleep. Should they sleep on simple matsin people's homes, or should you build a tourist compound with cabins anda dining hut?       There has been little change in land use. Currently about a third of allcommunity land is primary rainforest. Tourists pay only $40 a day, but the money has a big impact. At this rate,the four of you will make about $1000 this year, almost twice what you makefrom agriculture. What do you think? Let tourists eat and sleep in Quichua homes Build a tourist compound

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