Animals are extensively used in the tourism industry to provide pleasurable tourist
experiences, for instance in zoos, as working animals or in the wild. However, ample …

Alongside the growth in the animal-based tourism industry, the volume and diversity of
research on related issues has increased considerably over the last half century. The extant …

In the 1980s, alarm began to spread about habitat loss, especially in tropical forests that
supported a vast number of species. Fast and accelerating clearing over the previous two …

Wildlife tourism is one of the fastest growing tourism sectors worldwide. Little is known,
however, about its impacts on the wildlife on which it depends. This paper explores, as a first …

An experiential view of wildlife tourism concerns the emotional, psychological and physical
benefits of taking a wildlife holiday, and provides a different and important understanding of …

Wildlife tourism (WT) is an emerging sector of tourism, majorly meant to view and/or
encounter wildlife in the wild, captive, and semi-captive settings. Because of the new …

Ecotourism projects are mostly implemented in naturally fragile ecosystems as a savior of
nature, culture, and indigenous people. This paper aims to make quantitative study of …

Purpose This paper aims to synthesize the key findings of prior research on the topic of
human-wildlife interactions (HWI) in natural places for tourism. Design/methodology …

In recent decades, rising consumer interest in visiting relatively less commercialized natural
destinations has facilitated the growth of ecotourism. Yet the research on ecotourism is …

This book critically examines the many ways in which tourism and animals intersect, whether
as tourist attractions, wildlife conservation tools, as travel companions or as meat to be …