COVID-19 prevented this from happening in 2020, it is clear that there is a strong demand for ecotourism.

LINK IT UP

Visit The International Ecotourism Society’s website (http://openstax.org/l/ecotourism) to learn more about

The International Ecotourism Society, its programs, and tourism’s role in sustainable community

development.

Realizing the attraction of ecotourism, the residents of low-income countries may come to see that preserving

wildlife habitats is more lucrative than, say, cutting down forests or grazing livestock. In South Africa, Namibia,

and Zimbabwe, for example, ecotourism has given local communities an economic interest in protecting

elephant and rhinoceros populations. Some of the leading ecotourism destinations include Costa Rica and

Panama in Central America; the Caribbean; Malaysia, and other South Pacific destinations; New Zealand; the

Serengeti in Tanzania; the Amazon rain forests; and the Galapagos Islands. In many of these countries and
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