Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods through Wildlife Tourism

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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Main Authors: Twining-Ward, Louise, Li, Wendy, Bhammar, Hasita, Wright, Elisson
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:
TOURISM
ECOTOURISM
WILDLIFE TOURISM
WILDLIFE PROTECTION
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
SOCIAL IMPACT
SKILLED LABOR
SUSTAINABILITY
SDGs
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
MANAGEMENT
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
PARTNERSHIP MODELS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/494211519848647950/Supporting-sustainable-livelihoods-through-wildlife-tourism
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spelling okr-10986-294172021-06-14T10:06:47Z Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods through Wildlife Tourism Twining-Ward, Louise Li, Wendy Bhammar, Hasita Wright, Elisson TOURISM ECOTOURISM WILDLIFE TOURISM WILDLIFE PROTECTION ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT SOCIAL IMPACT SKILLED LABOR SUSTAINABILITY SDGs SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION MANAGEMENT PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS PARTNERSHIP MODELS 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. 2018-03-01T16:28:11Z 2018-03-01T16:28:11Z 2018-02 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/494211519848647950/Supporting-sustainable-livelihoods-through-wildlife-tourism http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29417 English Tourism for Development; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Environmental Study Africa South Asia Botswana India Kenya Malawi Namibia South Africa Uganda
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topic TOURISM
ECOTOURISM
WILDLIFE TOURISM
WILDLIFE PROTECTION
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
SOCIAL IMPACT
SKILLED LABOR
SUSTAINABILITY
SDGs
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
MANAGEMENT
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
PARTNERSHIP MODELS
spellingShingle TOURISM
ECOTOURISM
WILDLIFE TOURISM
WILDLIFE PROTECTION
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
SOCIAL IMPACT
SKILLED LABOR
SUSTAINABILITY
SDGs
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
MANAGEMENT
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
PARTNERSHIP MODELS
Twining-Ward, Louise
Li, Wendy
Bhammar, Hasita
Wright, Elisson
Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods through Wildlife Tourism
geographic_facet Africa
South Asia
Botswana
India
Kenya
Malawi
Namibia
South Africa
Uganda
relation Tourism for Development;
description 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.
format Report
author Twining-Ward, Louise
Li, Wendy
Bhammar, Hasita
Wright, Elisson
author_facet Twining-Ward, Louise
Li, Wendy
Bhammar, Hasita
Wright, Elisson
author_sort Twining-Ward, Louise
title Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods through Wildlife Tourism
title_short Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods through Wildlife Tourism
title_full Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods through Wildlife Tourism
title_fullStr Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods through Wildlife Tourism
title_full_unstemmed Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods through Wildlife Tourism
title_sort supporting sustainable livelihoods through wildlife tourism
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2018
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/494211519848647950/Supporting-sustainable-livelihoods-through-wildlife-tourism
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