Assessing contributions of volunteer tourism to ecosystem research and conservation in southern Africa

Kim G. Roques, Susan K. Jacobson and Robert A. McCleery

Ecosystem Services, 2018, vol. 30, issue PC, 382-390

Abstract: •We provide data on 2,085 volunteer tourists that visited southern Africa.•We present 8 years of conservation outputs from Mozambique and Swaziland projects.•Our results validate a previously developed conservation evaluation framework.•Volunteer tourism can deliver conservation benefits but these need evaluating.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.12.014

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