Growing Leaps and Bounds
<p>Since its inception in 1973, Project Tiger has put tiger tourism on the plate for Indian wildlife aficionados. Wildlife tourism has grown at an average rate of <a href="https://www.conservationindia.org/articles/wildlife-tourism-new-study-new-revelations" target="_blank">15 per cent</a> every year for the last two decades, and is poised to become a growing phenomenon in India’s emerging market. A <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/wildlife-tourists-in-indias-emerging-economy-potential-for-a-conservation-constituency/40F074097036A36A0A5EB89B147FA6F9" target="_blank">study</a> about wildlife tourists in India found that between 74,000 and 1,54,000 people annually visit Nagarahole, Kanha and Ranthambhore Tiger Reserves. Over 70 per cent of these were Indian tourists, of which 27 per cent said they had come to see a tiger. Photo: Dhritiman Mukherjee</p>
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