Conservation tourism

Conservation of biological diversity and functioning ecosystems is critical for human well-being; yet it is increasingly threatened through continuing population growth, consumption and contamination of natural resources and ecosystems, and now also by climate change. The global protected area network has made enormous contributions to conservation, but it is not enough on its own and it also is under continual threat. Additional social and economic mechanisms are urgently needed to support the public reserve system and extend conservation efforts outside reserves. Conservation tourism is one component, small as yet but potentially significant.

Từ khóa: Conservation tourism, biological diversity, natural resources, social economic, commercial tourism, du lịch bảo tồn, kinh tế du lịch, thương mại du lịch