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...British Columbia alone. Nature travel is the fastest-growing segment of the tourism industry worldwide, increasing from 20% to 30% annually in recent years. Many of the 13 million Americans who travel to Canada for leisure each year participate in outdoor activities. When Dean Wyatt bought Knight Inlet Lodge in 1996, all his business was sports fishing; now it is 98% ecotourism. Since 1993 the number of Canadian-based ecotourist operators like Wyatt has tripled, to more than...
Ecotourists will spend plenty of money on these learning adventures. A five-day complete package at Knight Inlet Lodge, which includes the flight to and from Vancouver Island, accommodations and food, boat tours, wildlife viewing, presentations, tracking, kayaking and fishing, costs a couple up to $4,720. Still this is much less than an equivalent safari in Africa--and less than many similar adventures offered by U.S. outfitters, in part because of the weak Canadian dollar...
...return for spending thousands of dollars on a vacation, wildlife viewers want knowledgeable and personable guides and staff. At Knight Inlet Lodge, the guests applaud the staff, no less attractive than the Baywatch gang, only fully clothed and better educated. Guest Larry Jandrew of Asheville, N.C., who brought a family party of himself and seven others to the lodge, was particularly taken by Meg Pocklington, a Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Center research assistant, who during a long hike through the rain forest took special care of Jandrew's mother-in-law Kitty Conley. Pat Chadwick and Sam Twyford, a retired...
Just as supportive as the staff at Knight Inlet were those at Paradise Found Adventure Tours (www.paradisefound.bc.ca), where I swam with the salmon. The opportunity to get up close and personal with salmon was high on my agenda for this trip, because most of the animals I would see depend for their survival on these fish. As the sun set on Campbell River in Vancouver Island, I drifted with the current through clear water. Because my guide, Jamie Turko, was so determined to protect me, I could totally focus on one of nature's great mysteries: the journey of Pacific...
Ecotours are often about native culture as well as animals. At Knight Inlet in western Canada, guests may visit the home village of guide Nick Chowdhury, a member of the Tanakteuk Band. Across the country in a very different landscape, Cree guides lead animal lovers in Polar Bear Provincial Park. Traveling with Free Spirit Air Adventures www.elmhirst.com) Alice Piacentini of Prospect, Ohio, flew with her husband, four children ranging then from six to 14, and her parents-in-law to the 9,100-sq.-mi. park in northern Ontario. While everyone in the family was thrilled by the bears, they...