New paper by WTA chair
Green, R. J. 2013. Reaching out to non-ecologists: why I got involved in wildlife tourism, Journal of Ecotourism, DOI:10.1080/14724049.2013.788655
The article begins
I started to get interested in ecotourism many years before the word was coined. Very few of my schoolmates seemed to know or care about the wonderful array of creatures we shared our planet with. I often wondered how anyone could be so bored on so fascinating a planet, and what kinds of experience might lead them to notice its wonders and develop some concern for the conservation of biodiversity
and continues to give a brief personal history of the development of the tour company, problems along the way and thoughts on the future both for her own business and for wildlife tourism in general.