On November 16 we had Kellee Caton speak about Ecotourism and transformative tourism and it was one of my favorite lectures I have had over the semester. Kellee defined ecotourism as tourism in a natural setting, with the goal to support conservation, benefit local communities, and educate tourists. Transformative takes the ecotourism idea but is more personalized to each individual as it is a travel experience that changes the perspective of the traveler and allows them to grow from the experience. Kellee also brought up the commodification of nature but also the idea of last chance tourism and how that type of tourism is a destroyed ecosystem in which capitalism will commodify it and profit from it. What I found the most interesting from her lecture was what feeds care into ecotourism. This includes enhancement, deep sensory engagement, the quiet and alternate experience of time. Enchantment focuses on the ethics of ecotourism to involve an effective dimension to make and inspire us. Deep sensory engagement is about becoming engaged in your surrounding without any abstract concepts so on can be fully immersed. Having quiet allows an individual to locate themselves relative to their surroundings and also become more immersed. An alternate experience of time is when there is more reliance on the outdoor environment to determine the seasonality and time of day. By entering into these states, one can experience ecotourism and transformative tourism as it cuts out the abstract elements and allows one to be fully immersed in their environment and grow.