Wildlife and other (non-human) animals

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Australian shark tourism valuation method may be useful elsewhere

September 22, 2017

The economic value of shark tourism including white shark cage-diving in Australia

A socio-eco­­nom­ic sur­vey meth­od­o­logy that recently estim­ated the dir­ect eco­nom­ic con­tri­bu­tion of shark tour­ism in Aus­tralia may be a use­ful tool for estim­at­ing the value of wild­life tour­ism and eco­tour­ism in oth­er des­tin­a­tions. For des­tin­a­tions keen to under­stand more about the eco­nom­ic value of their own eco­tour­ism and wild­life tour­ism products, the meth­od­o­logy employed by […]

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Pantanal jaguar ecotourists willing to compensate ranchers for stock losses

September 14, 2017

Wildlife ecotourists willing to compensate ranchers

Most wild­life eco­tour­ists in the Pantanal region of South Amer­ica say they are will­ing to com­pensate cattle ranch­ers for live­stock taken by wild jag­uars. This is accord­ing to a new study, “The num­bers of the beast: Valu­ation of jag­uar (Pan­thera onca) tour­ism and cattle depred­a­tion in the Brazili­an Pantanal”, by Fernando R. Tor­tato, Thi­ago J. Izzo, […]

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COMESA tourism, wildlife, heritage handbook launched

September 8, 2017

COMESA tourism, wildlife, heritage handbook launched

The Com­mon Mar­ket for East­ern & South­ern Africa (COMESA) launched The COMESA Tour­ism & Wild­life Her­it­age Hand­book; Single Mar­ket – Count­less des­tin­a­tions at the 41st World Tour­ism Con­fer­ence held in Kigali, Rwanda. The hand­book is part of the COMESA Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Devel­op­ment Stra­tegic Frame­work, which has been recog­nised by mem­ber states as a mod­el to […]

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Whale shark tracking shows upside for Ningaloo ecotourism industry

August 31, 2017

Whale shark tourism. Whale shark Ningaloo ecotourism Western Australia. Source: ECOCEAN

Swim­ming with whale sharks could become a year-round eco­tour­ism activ­ity for the Nin­ga­loo Coast region of West­ern Aus­tralia (WA), accord­ing to ECOCEAN research sci­ent­ist Sam­antha Reyn­olds. By emphas­ising the poten­tial for an eco­nom­ic activ­ity, the Phys.org story is a refresh­ing hint at how an envir­on­ment­al­ist cause can ally with sci­ence and the tour­ism industry. Reynolds […]

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Lynx between a species’ reintroduction & ecotourism?

July 11, 2017

Species reintroduction ecotourism. Eurasian lynx in winter coat. By Tom Bech via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/viatorius/8603098728

The rein­tro­duc­tion of the Euras­i­an lynx into European coun­tries has res­ul­ted in new indus­tries such as wild­life tour­ism and eco­tour­ism; “breath­ing new eco­nom­ic life into remote rur­al com­munit­ies”. So says the Lynx UK Trust, which last week updated stake­hold­ers on its pro­posed tri­al rein­tro­duc­tion of the Euras­i­an lynx to the Kield­er Forest of Northum­ber­land in […]

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More shades of grey in elephant tourism

June 30, 2017
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More shades of grey in elephant tourism

Soon after The “Good Tour­ism” Blog shared a link to a “GT” Insight about ele­phant tour­ism to an eco­tour­ism industry Face­book group, the motiv­a­tion of con­trib­ut­or John Roberts was ques­tioned by an angry com­ment­at­or: “The fact that someone employed in the ele­phant rid­ing industry is writ­ing crit­ic­ally about the neg­at­ive impacts of Respons­ible Tour­ism on […]

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