How to Use ecotourism in a Sentence
ecotourism
noun-
After the mass exodus of textile mills, these villages leaned into ecotourism and embraced the river as a destination.
— Outside Online, 10 July 2024 -
The government says the park will serve as a key site for ecotourism and research.
— Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2022 -
Roughly half of the delta's workforce work in ecotourism.
— Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024 -
Ash has also put a damper already on ecotourism in the area around the volcano.
— Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015 -
In the world of sustainable travel, the term ecotourism is a slippery fish.
— Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022 -
But now, in Cambodia and other wild places around the world, ecotourism is in the crosshairs of a new threat — covid-19, the disease caused by the novel .
— Washington Post, 11 June 2020 -
Researchers hope the kitten can help spur local awareness of the cats and maybe draw in some ecotourism.
— Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017 -
Zack Klyver said the growth of seals has contributed to ecotourism.
— Patrick Whittle and Michael Casey, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2020 -
The worst impact was on his ecotourism business, hit first by the coronavirus and then by the wildfires.
— Scott Reinhard, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020 -
Over 10 days in the African wilderness, Woods and others like her had shown me the folly of my resistance to ecotourism.
— Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023 -
The hope is that shark ecotourism can provide a lifeline to locals who depend on the sea for their livelihood.
— Juli Berwald, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023 -
The effort will usher in a new era of ecotourism and protection for one of the last and most endangered wild places on Earth.
— Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019 -
The city, a five-minute drive outside of Dakar, will be billed as a global ecotourism destination.
— Fox News, 14 Jan. 2020 -
This was the companion piece to the crocodile center, part of the Boca de Guamá ecotourism complex.
— Shanna Baker, Smithsonian, 21 June 2018 -
In the past six years, small ecotourism businesses like Thompson’s have sprung up, cashing in on the white bear bonanza.
— Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017 -
In the past six years, small ecotourism businesses like Thompson’s have sprung up, cashing in on the white bear bonanza.
— Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017 -
Opponents of the earlier ecotourism plan worried that the building won’t end with just one house.
— From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2021 -
About 3,000 tortoises live on the island, which is managed for ecotourism.
— Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2021 -
There is no faster or more efficient way of doing this than developing ecotourism of the places and species that people want to see.
— Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 8 June 2018 -
The Dusun ecotourism resort, where the family were staying, is in a remote area in the Titiwangsa mountain range about 30 miles southeast of Kuala Lumpur.
— Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2019 -
Around a suite of wildlife successes, Burrell and Tree have carefully built an income stream from ecotourism and wild-range meats.
— Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020 -
The new bear-viewing area would provide good-paying ecotourism jobs for rural Southeast Alaskans.
— Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023 -
Today, his family has a small cattle ranch and a budding ecotourism business of its own.
— Antonia Juhasz, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022 -
The olm is an iconic animal in Slovenia, and its presence provides a boost to local ecotourism.
— Discover Magazine, 20 July 2010 -
The next one should be getting nature-lovers to put their money where their tweets are by donating to wildlife preserves or taking an ecotourism trip to Africa.
— Kit Ramgopal and Matt Cooke, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2017 -
The local government in Hangzhou, where the show was filmed, gave the group $55 million to expand its operations and encourage ecotourism in the area.
— Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024 -
Big Sur’s history is one long struggle over ecotourism’s core contradiction: how to keep the land undisturbed while selling it to the world.
— Josh Marcus, Outside Online, 3 Oct. 2019 -
Today a host of entrepreneurs are sharing their love of this land through ecotourism operations.
— National Geographic, 1 Sep. 2020 -
His father was of Spanish and Dutch descent — which later turned out to be crucial — and served as a pilot for an ecotourism company.
— Apoorva Mandavilli, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2020 -
However, Kamba, a company that focuses on low-impact ecotourism adventures and is the only private operator in the park, is working to change that, as well as advance our understanding of one of our closest cousins on the evolutionary tree.
— Bailey Berg, TIME, 25 July 2024
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