Photographic safari tourism

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The non-consumptive visitor economy that finances most eastern African protected areas: entry fees, concession fees, bed-night levies and conservancy leases paid for the opportunity to see large mammals alive. Kenya committed to this model when it banned sport hunting in 1977. Its strengths are scale and the fact that a living animal can be sold repeatedly; its weaknesses are geographic concentration (a handful of iconic sites carry the revenue for whole park systems), seasonality, vulnerability to shocks, and the pressure that vehicle density and lodge development place on the very few places tourists want to visit. Southern African states that retained regulated hunting argue it distributes revenue to low-density areas photographic tourism will never reach; this is a live and unresolved policy disagreement, not a settled question.

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