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ECOTOURISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ecotourism mean?
• ECOTOURISM (noun)
The noun ECOTOURISM has 1 sense:
1. tourism to exotic or threatened ecosystems to observe wildlife or to help preserve nature
Familiarity information: ECOTOURISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tourism to exotic or threatened ecosystems to observe wildlife or to help preserve nature
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ecotourism" is a kind of...):
tourism; touristry (the business of providing services to tourists)
Context examples
The latter figure specifically estimates only ecotourism.
(New study of endangered whale shark youth shows vital habitat similarities, Wikinews)
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