Stronza, Amanda L.; Hunt, Carter; Fitzgerald, Lee A. - 2019
Ecotourism originated in the 1980s, at the dawn of sustainable development, as a way to channel tourism revenues into … conservation and development. Despite the “win-win” idea, scholars and practitioners debate the meaning and merits of ecotourism …. We conducted a review of 30 years of ecotourism research, looking for empirical evidence of successes and failures. We …