Tailor-made safaris and travel to Southern Africa
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Tailor-made safaris and travel to Southern Africa |
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Eco-Tourism - a Liyatshwa Safaris Perspective |
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"Eco-tourism" can broadly be defined as the careful and sustainable utilization of natural and cultural resources for the purposes of low-impact tourism. It is a principle to which we at Liyatshwa Safaris strongly subscribe both because it is the only long-term, responsible form of tourism in an ecologically and culturally sensitive environment, and because it provides the traveller with a more intimate and fulfilling experience in any case. Small, environmentally friendly camps and lodges catering to a few discerning travellers not only have a much more limited impact on their environment than do large hotels, but they provide their guests with the perfect setting from which to encounter the true African wilderness.
Another recent development in the Southern African region has been the recognition that nature and wildlife conservation, and the tourism dependent on such conservation, will not succeed unless they proceed along inclusive lines, with concrete benefits to surrounding communities and other stakeholders in the region. As such, many of the leading camps and lodges have voluntarily established community empowerment programs aimed at sharing the returns from environmentally responsible tourism with the people bordering wilderness areas. The result is that many former poachers have turned enthusiastic game-keepers, with remarkable consequences for nature conservation in the entire region. Local villagers are also much more positively disposed towards visitors, making for very rewarding encounters with traditional rural African communities. The overall result for the traveller is that they have the wonderful opportunity of experiencing unspoiled African wilderness and authentic African culture, in the knowledge that they are contributing to both.
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| INTRODUCTION - Eco-Tourism - Weather - Best Time to Travel - Brief History - Politics |
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Photo credits: Wilderness Safaris (A family of cheetahs) |
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