How to Use ecotourism in a Sentence

ecotourism

noun
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  • 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
  • After the mass exodus of textile mills, these villages leaned into ecotourism and embraced the river as a destination.
    — Outside Online, 10 July 2024
  • Kevin Schenk, the Hawaiian owner of ecotourism operator Seeding the Future, says interest in volunteering has been high.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2024

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