Benefits, Costs, and Spatial Trends of Ecotourism in Iceland

• Main Author: Spicer, Elliot
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ OWU 2022
• Subjects: Ecotourism; Iceland; Environmental Economics; Anthropology; Communication; Economics; Geography; History; International and Area Studies; Sustainability; The Spike
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/studentsymposium/2022/panel_three/3

Ecotourism is tourism directed towards exotic, often threatened, natural environments intended to support conservation efforts and observable wildlife. Iceland has experienced a substantial increase in ecotourism in the past 15 years, which now accounts for most of its economic wealth and GDP. Trage...