“It creates a wide variety of jobs because it is generally a labor-intensive sector. That is, if you look at the jobs created from people taking care of the parks, the entrepreneurs involved in photography, tour guides, and so forth. So all these varieties of jobs and other value chains support the entire tourism sector, including transport and even local crafts, in terms of the people who craft different products or also make by-products from wildlife, like horns, in making souvenirs. It’s also all these that tend to benefit directly from wildlife tourism. So, in general, in Africa, it contributes approximately 29 billion dollars annually as of 2023, and this is projected to grow into 2030. There’s an estimation that it might likely reach 168 billion if it continues to grow at the same trajectory,” Dr. Ndlovu pointed out.