The 'Sanctuary Gap': Reviewing the Research on Captive Wildlife Sanctuary Tourism.

ABSTRACT: Wildlife sanctuaries have gained popularity in recent years as settings for research into human-animal relations, captive wildlife tourism, and rehabilitation. While scholars from animal studies, ethics, geography, and ethnography disciplines have turned their attention to sanctuaries, there is still limited engagement from the fields of tourism, conservation, and animal welfare sciences. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this paper addresses the 'sanctuary gap' by offering a synthesis of the existing research related to wildlife sanctuary tourism. To this end, the paper suggests preliminary definitions for wildlife sanctuary tourism and wildlife sanctuary attractions, as well as a typology of sanctuaries along a spectrum from greenwashed to just. It aims

SUBMITTER: Speiran SIM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11851909 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature