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Ecotourism’s Promise and Peril

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The goal of this book is to empower operators, regulators, and tourists to find the critical balance between possibly damaging consequences of wildlife tourism and the potential benefits to the local human communities, ecosystems, and the wildlife themselves. It is essential to realize that ecotourism is frequently more environmentally friendly than other uses of natural resources. Thus, ecotourism can provide great incentives for nature conservation. Nonetheless, as previous chapters have shown, there are many examples of environmentally unfriendly ecotourism practices. It is imperative to mitigate any negative impacts of ecotourism not only for ecological reasons but also to enhance social and economic sustainability. The objective of this chapter is to provide a list of best practices based on the evidence discussed in previous chapters. Greater awareness of such practices will enable tourism operators and managers to make informed decisions for the benefit of both the wildlife that people wish to see and the human communities that are fortunate enough to share these natural resources.

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  1. Department of Ecology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Diogo S. M. Samia

  2. Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Lisa M. Angeloni

  3. Ocean Conservation Society, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Maddalena Bearzi

  4. Graduate Program in Ecology, and Life and Earth Sciences Department, University of Brasília, Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil

    Eduardo Bessa

  5. Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Kevin R. Crooks

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    Marcello D’Amico

  7. CEABN-InBIO, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Marcello D’Amico

  8. Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Ursula Ellenberg

  9. Ifremer, UMR MARBEC, Marine Biodiversity, Exploitation and Conservation, Laboratory of Adaptation and Adaptability of Animals and Systems, Palavas-les-Flots, France

    Benjamin Geffroy & Bastien Sadoul

  10. Graduate Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Courtney L. Larson

  11. Conservation Biogeography Lab, Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil

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    Anders Pape Møller

  14. Wildlife Conservation Society and Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Sarah E. Reed

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  20. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Samia, D.S.M. et al. (2017). Best Practices Toward Sustainable Ecotourism. In: Blumstein, D., Geffroy, B., Samia, D., Bessa, E. (eds) Ecotourism’s Promise and Peril. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58331-0_10

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