Natural tourism only accounts for a small fraction of the overall global tourist industry, it is reported to be one of fastest-growing tourism markets. Nature tourism's continued expansion offers opportunities to generate increased income and employment, both nationally and in remote rural areas, and to provide increased incentives for biodiversity conservation in state protected areas and on private lands.
Travel to natural areas which conserves the environment and sustains the will-being of local people. In other worlds it is an environmentally responsible and socially and entirely sound tourism. It is one of the effective means to finance conservation and alternative livelihood. |