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Ecotourism and protected areas: visitor management for sustainability
Conservation issues are now at the forefront of public opinion. The decline of natural rainforests, loss of endangered species, global warming and increasing land degradation have galvanised public support for conservation. It is no accident that the interest and growth of ecotourism and nature-oriented tourism has coincided with this world-wide concern.
Ecotourism and nature-oriented tourism often take place in protected and remote regions, areas of exceptional beauty, ecological interest and cultural importance. Today these areas are established to conserve biodiversity and to halt the large scale loss of natural ecosystems. Globally there are approximately 8500 protected ...
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