Ecotourism in the USA

Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in the world economy, contributing to the inclusion and application of advanced technologies, the activation of the international services market and the solution of problems of employment and improvement of the population of the world’s countries.

The USA is the most developed country and the leading tourist region in North America. Tourism in the United States is one of the leading industries that provides travel services every year. The attractiveness of this region is explained by the abundance of numerous historical, cultural, and architectural monuments, which is a favorable support for the development of many types of tourism. Ecotourism occupies a special place in the US tourism industry.

Ecotourism is nature-based tourism that involves studying the natural environment and also serves to improve the situation in that environment. It is based not only on the purpose of travel and recreation, but also on caring for the natural environment. The United States has rich recreational resources, which are being developed and further used for tourism purposes. The country has a huge number of protected areas that have gained worldwide fame and are in demand both among local residents and tourists from all over the world, most of whom live in cities, far from wild nature.

In the USA, ecotourism is divided into several types: adventure tourism, scientific tourism, travel to reservations and nature reserves, natural history tours, etc., each of which has a special infrastructure and organization.

Eco-tourism contributes to the development of national parks, reservations, nature reserves, tourism infrastructure, the emergence of new ecological trails and routes, and excursion programs.

The result of the activities of ecotourism objects is the attraction of funds for the development of the economy of the adjacent areas. The significance of this type of tourism in this region is relevant at the present time, since it plays a significant role due to the fact that it preserves the unique natural heritage of a particular territory used for tourism purposes, attracts a huge number of tourists and is thus beneficial from an economic point of view vision. WTO (world tourism organization) experts make forecasts according to which ecotourism will increase in popularity every year and the growth rate of popularity will be very high.