Abstract
This chapter explores the multifarious and overlapping negative and positive impacts of tourism on wildlife. In doing so, it recognises the various ways that tourists and the tourism industry see wild animals as desirable, to see, interact with, and eat, and pests, to be removed from the tourism environment and/or destroyed. Recognising the impossibility of covering all tourism-wildlifeencounters, the chapter focuses on captive wildlife, particularly in zoos, tourist-wildlifeencounters in less-controlled spaces, wildlife as culinary experiences for tourists, and hunting. The discussion of the impacts of tourism on wildlife is situated within the recognition of animal sentience, and associated rights and welfare needs. It assesses how the recognition of animal sentience is influencing the positioning of wildlife by tourists and the tourism industry. Finally, the chapter looks to the future of research into wildlife tourism and the need for researchers to engage with activism to push forward the welfare of wild animals in the tourism experience.