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In the midst of environmental doom, a tourist industry...
From Canada’s polar bears to Zimbabwe’s lions, travellers are increasingly flocking to see endangered natural phenomena, creating a new market niche: ‘tourism of doom.’Tracking endangered wildlife in politically troubled, impoverished Zimbabwe might not seem like an ideal holiday spot but it is in hot demand in the travel industry's latest niche market: "tourism of doom."
Sector specialists coined the term for the growing number of travellers flocking to far-flung corners of the planet to see endangered natural wonders before they disappear.
Ken Shapiro, the editor of TravelAge West, a magazine for travel agents, said the destinations can be melting glaciers, shrinking tropical rain forests or other places these travellers believe will be destroyed in a generation due to climate change, overbuilding or other threats to the environment.
"People are travelling to places because they really are convinced that it is going to change and they want to see it before that change happens," he said. "We see that a lot now, it has actually become much more mainstream."
The trend was first spotted about two years ago, he added.
Shapiro said travel agents report that clients are increasingly requesting trips to see the melting glaciers of the Antarctic, the threatened coral of Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro before it loses its ice cap.
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