Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods through Wildlife Tourism
Tourism is an engine for jobs, exports, and investments. The tourism sector is also the largest, global, market-based contributor to financing protected area systems. Nature-based tourism (NBT) is a sub-component of the tourism sector that includes...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/494211519848647950/Supporting-sustainable-livelihoods-through-wildlife-tourism http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29417 |
| Summary: | Tourism is an engine for jobs, exports,
and investments. The tourism sector is also the largest,
global, market-based contributor to financing protected area
systems. Nature-based tourism (NBT) is a sub-component of
the tourism sector that includes wildlife-based tourism. NBT
is a powerful tool countries can leverage to grow and
diversify their economies while protecting their
biodiversity, and contributing to many sustainable
development goals (SDG), including SDGs 12 and 15. Local
communities, private sector enterprises, and governments can
also benefit from investments in tourism through increased
market opportunities and linkages to tourism services such
as agriculture production, hoteling, restaurants,
transportation, health services, etc. This report explores
innovative tourism partnership and investment opportunities
to help countries unlock smart investment and grow tourism
sustainably. It showcases sustainable wildlife tourism
models from Botswana, India, Kenya, South Africa and many
other countries and promotes solutions that offer insight
into the wildlife based tourism sector as a mechanism for
inclusive poverty reduction and global conservation. |
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