The aim of this summary is to provide a ‘snapshot' of research that informs the wildlife – tourism relationship and its management.
It reports on research in the field of wildlife tourism published by the STCRC from 2001 to 2008.
The individual research projects cover a variety of elements concerned with wildlife tourism and as such have been sectioned into the following five themes:
- Visitors
- Economics
- The Wildlife Experience
- Host Communities
- Wildlife Impacts and Management
The encounter between the visitor and the wildlife comprises the core of a wildlife tourism experience.
This experience is a result of the interaction of elements relating to the natural resource base (wildlife and associated
habitat), the visitor, the operator and host community, the economy and any management set in place.
The consequences for the natural environment and for host communities can be positive, neutral or negative and all these elements depend, in turn, on the wider context in which the experience occurs.
There will often be interdependencies between and within these elements.
Thus in order to explain the various outcomes of wildlife tourism, and to manage it sustainably, we need to consider all of these elements in an integrated way.
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