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It highlights the recognized economic value of conservation sites, including revenue generation, improved rural infrastructure, jobs and enterprise creation, diversification, and ecosystem services such as water quality and disaster risk reduction. It also presents international evidence that nature-based tourism can reduce poverty, limit deforestation, support threatened species, and expand employment, including in remote, low-opportunity settings.","Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure AuthorizedGreen GrowthPublicAdvisoryDisclosure Authorized  \nProgramme for Lao PDR  \nProtected Areas and Tourism in Lao PDR  \nPolicy Note  \nCover photo is Kuangsi waterfall, Luang Prabang. Photo credit: Adri Berger for Forest Carbon Partnership Facility  \nAerial view of Hin Nam No National Park. Photo credit: Ryan De Boodt/GIZ.  \n1  \nProtected Areas and Tourism in Lao PDR  \nConservation and tourism contribute to greener economic growth in many countries.  \nAlthough protected areas have often been viewed as land excluded from economic development for the purposes of environmental conservation, many countries have realized their powerful economic potential through tourism and visitation. Infact, tourism has been an integral part of protected area management since the beginning of their conception. If appropriate policy and technical capacity are established, most protected area professionals argue that both ecosystem protection and tourism development can be implemented concurrently without undermining the objectives of either activity. Lao PDR policy makers have recognized the economic potential of protected areas and seek to develop these sites as a focus of the National Socio-Economic Development Plan 2021-2025 and the 2030 National Green Growth Strategy, given the globally unique natural heritage of Lao PDR.  \nProtected areas can deliver a wide variety of direct and indirect economic benefits.  \nProtected areas have demonstrated the ability to increase government revenues, promote betterrural infrastructure, stimulate new tourism enterprises, promote economic diversification and resilience, encourage the local manufacture of goods and services, generate local tax revenues, provide disaster risk reduction, improve water quality and availability, and provide other ecosystem services important for sustaining life. Due to protected areas often being established in remote areas with high poverty rates and low agricultural production, they can often drive economic growth and reduce poverty in places with few other options, while also reducing risks to sustainable growth and  \nIrrawaddy Dolphins in the Mekong River.  \nenhancing quality of life.  \n2 World Bank Lao PDR Green Growth Advisory Program Policy Note  \n• Tourism was responsible for decreased poverty rates in Costa Rica (-10%) and Thailand (-30%) in villages within or close to protected areas.1 In both countries these protected areas systems have also reduced deforestation and protected threatened species. In China, nature-based tourism in protected areas was credited with raising 4,654 villages above the poverty line over a 20-year period.2  \n• In 2015, researchers estimated that protected areas globally received 8 billion visitsand generated US$600 billion of tourism expenditures, in contrast to only US$10 billion being spent protecting them.3 Growth in demand is increasing across the world. In China, visitors and revenue from protected areas increased annually by 20% and 43% respectively from 2000 to 2009 (despite the SARS outbreak) . By 2009, there were 333 million annual visits to protected areas in China (mostly domestic visits), generating almost US$3 billion in spending and creating 1 million jobs.4  \n• In India, nature-based tourism in protected areas has grown by an annual average of 15% from 2002 to 2008.5 As an illustrative example, Corbett National Park is one of the most famous protected areas with high tiger densities, diverse bird populations, and stunning landscape scenery. But in 2000, it was having difficulties with basic operational financing, so a US$2 per night fee was implemented and US$20,000 of revenue was generated that was retained by the park for investing in tourism. In 2005, these fees were doubled, park revenues increased to US$75,000, and 50 additional local youths were hired. 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