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Primates in Anthropogenic Landscapes pp 183–201Cite as

Primate Tourism

Part of the Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects book series (DIPR)

Abstract

Primate tourism, where people travel and see non-human primates, is a rapidly growing activity. This chapter introduces the history and the multidimensions of primate tourism across the world. We then focus on tourism associated with wild primate viewing and assess the costs and benefits of primate tourism related to habitat protection, revenue generation, co-existence with local communities, knowledge sharing, provisioning, health and habituation. Following this assessment, we explore the different drivers for human-primate interactions associated with primate tourism. This chapter concludes by summarising responsible primate tourism guidelines.

Keywords

  • Health
  • Human-primate interactions
  • Management
  • Provisioning
  • Viewing primates

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the editors for inviting us to contribute to the present book and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments that helped us improve the chapter. We are also very grateful to the governments and communities that, over the years, have given us the opportunity to conduct research on primate tourism.

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  1. Malene Friis Hansen and Stefano S. K. Kaburu contributed equally as joint first authors.

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Behavioural Ecology Group, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Malene Friis Hansen

  2. The Long-Tailed Macaque Project, Broerup, Denmark

    Malene Friis Hansen

  3. Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

    Malene Friis Hansen

  4. Department of Biomedical Science and Physiology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

    Stefano S. K. Kaburu

  5. Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

    Kristen S. Morrow

  6. University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK

    Laëtitia Maréchal

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  2. Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham, UK

    Siân Waters

  3. Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Michelle A. Rodrigues

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Hansen, M.F., Kaburu, S.S.K., Morrow, K.S., Maréchal, L. (2023). Primate Tourism. In: McKinney, T., Waters, S., Rodrigues, M.A. (eds) Primates in Anthropogenic Landscapes. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11736-7_11

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