 Hi everyone, nice to meet you here virtually. I'm very glad to have this opportunity to share some good practices of Korean ecotourism with you today. Successful ecotourism development requires many elements already other speakers talked about such as good policies, local communities, capacity, and economically sustainable business development. But I would like to emphasize the importance of governance amongst stakeholders and apply sustainability criteria into the whole process of ecotourism development and operation. We have several public authorities promoting ecotourism in Korea as you can see on the screen. But with the given limited time I would like to focus on the ecotourism destinations designated by the Korean Ministry of Environment. Since December 2013, we have a total of 29 national ecotourism destinations. One of the key requirements for these destinations is the establishment of a local ecotourism association as a leading group of the development and management of ecotourism, but engaging various stakeholders. Another important requirement is continued capacity building programs under a multiple year plan covering social, economic, cultural, and environmental sustainability. And we assess the destinations activities every three years in terms of their sustainability achievement level. The environmental ministry and the local government jointly support the destinations activities financially, but the funds is small compared to other government local supporting projects. But the small funds focus on the residential capacity building and the collaborative decision making process having brought to many successful stories. I mentioned about the regular assessment of sustainability earlier. We apply 23 criteria to assess the destination as you can see on the screen. I'm not sure how much you're familiar with the global sustainable tourism criteria known as the GSTC criteria. There are two sets of criteria for any types of tourism destinations and the industry mainly covering hotels and tour printers. Anyway, we developed these 23 criteria based on the GSTC destination criteria. One of the achievements of the Korean ecotourism destinations that I would like to highlight today is that the destinations, basically the communities, clearly understand the goals of ecotourism such as the welfare of residents along with the conserved environment. I have been leading the assessment since 2016, the year we started assessment and when our team go to the destination to assess them, we do check if they monitored the number of visitors, but we pay more attention to the quality of the number. Therefore, we assess if the visitor numbers was under their carrying capacity, how the profits were distributed, how much satisfied with the ecotourism situation the resident was, etc. So one of the most impressive stories is a resident around the table discussion which all residents gather and discuss different issues including the direction of ecotourism development. Across all age groups from the elders to the children attend the discussion and raise their voices. It makes the resident listen to different voices and also they have to take responsibility on their decision because they decide which way they will go and the which resources they will use for ecotourism development. The resident group also leads the environmental monitoring activities with local experts support before focusing on what product they will sell to tourists that they focus on learning about their nature and their culture and also focus on a more sustainable lifestyle. If they are not sustainable, how do they ask the tourists to be sustainable? So these are some of the vineyards at the destination cell in the visitor center and these are essay and poem books. These are local grandmothers and the grandfathers wrote and painted as one of community ecotourism development activities. And to curious what content the books have, we should not ignore economic sustainability of course if there are no steady profits you know it may be more difficult to protect the natural environment from the typical development pressure. Gradually the ecotourism destinations in Korea are establishing more community-based social enterprises. So far the local associations have led many different activities such as serving meals and the ecotour activities based on the reservation because most people are farmers you know so they have no time to have 24 hours open restaurants or shops so it's basically they got the reservation. Many of these nations now have reached a certain level of capacity and decided to establish community-based but more systematic ecotourism enterprises so they can secure more economic sustainability. Social enterprises or other businesses run by local ecotourism associations have a transparent reporting system and then they also have they have to re-invest a certain agreed percentage of the profits in both environmental conservation and the community welfare enhancement. These are included in our assessment criteria. Of course they are not perfect. They are always complete big and small amongst stakeholders and then there are risks of ecotourism and then they also confront you know with difficulties of securing businesses socially and economically sustainable and then there are big rooms to improve for mitigating climate change more aggressively but sustainable tourism is about a journey. Ecotourism destinations in Korea have started their journey towards sustainable ecotourism and then they are contemplating and solving problems together through open discussion. I'm very proud of these destinations as they are overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic crisis by focusing more on capacity building and then pursuing of being more sustainable. They really want to you know get some tangible achievement as just sustainable communities sustainable community members. I wish you have a chance to visit our ecotourism destinations and then enjoy listening to more touchable their stories in addition to the beautiful nature and culture. Thank you very much.