Economic Perspectives on Nature Tourism, Conservation and Development
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| Author(s) | Wells, M.P. |
| Date | September 1997 |
| Reference type | Paper |
| Source name | Environmental Department Working Papers |
| Journal | No 55 |
| Pages | 54 pp. |
| Publisher | World Bank, Washington, D.C. |
Summary
This paper is specifically concerned with economic perspectives on nature tourism in developing countries. Nature tourism is particularly important in the context of sustainable development because it offers the potential of mobilizing resources through the private sector which can contribute to local and national economic development while providing an incentive for conservation land uses and helping to finance biodiversity conservation. But analysts have argued that there is a significant gap between nature tourism ' s actual and potential contribution to sustainable development. From a conservation perspective, most governments have not invested sufficient attention or resources in managing the natural assets. Unregulated tourism development has exposed sensitive sites of ecological or cultural value to the risk of degradation. The overall growth potential and some promising individual cases do suggest that nature tourism is an important sector where environmental conservation may effectively be combined with economic development in remote rural areas of developing countries on a meaningful scale. The policy-making priorities generally lie in four areas: a) increasing and capturing more the of the net economic benefits; b) contributing more to local economic development; c) mitigating environmental impacts; and d) helping to finance biodiversity conservation.
Themes
Market-based Approaches
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