Wildlife Tourism Essay

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Wildlife tourism can be an eco and animal friendly tourism, usually showing animals in their natural habitat. Wildlife tourism, in its simplest sense, is watching wild animals in their natural habitat. Wildlife tourism is an important part of the tourism industries in many countries including many African and South American countries, Australia, India, Canada… It has experienced a dramatic and rapid growth in recent years world wide and is closely aligned to eco-tourism and sustainable-tourism. It has been shown that: more and more wildlife tour operator are more and more involved by this type of tourism and try to implement attractive price for the customers. it is very trendy Wildlife toursim is not only « safari » it become more and more diversified and trying to propose new experience as birds watching, marine nature tourism. it becomes more and more popular, now days it is not only reserved for rich people thanks to the price which are lower 2. Southern Africa / East Africa / Central America The main principal difference between these to regions are the fact that in Africa the tourism is not egal in all part of the country. In fact the tourism has been developed by the occidental operator, the country is not homogene, there is a huge difference between each state such as safety, development, level of living… than in America. In Africa they have no tried to develop new form of tourism such as eco tourism, nature holiday, sustainable holiday as in America but they are more focused on the « Big Five » wildlife. In the East Africa, the tour operator have tried to attract more and more people with the mass marketing by decreased their price. 3. Wildlife tourism in Southern Africa could be more sustainable in : Change the actual package with short term tour ( 1day ..) where you can see animal near the airport with more longer tour to leave

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