If wisely managed nature tourism offers valuable opportunities for generating revenues for development and for conservationthe recommendations are fairly specific to the ezemvelo kwazulu natal wildlife area by combining various options into an integrated package to achieve economic development equity and conservation such a balanced approach provides pro poor tourism opportunities for local communities by reinvesting the proceeds in on the ground work in the reserves and in the . The book provides an evaluation of and policy advice on key environmental social and economic issues concerning the development of nature tourism using kwazulu natal in south africa as a case study it highlights both the benefits and trade offs i promoting an managing sustainable nature tourism development and it assesses how policy can enhance nature tourisms contribution to economic growth poverty reduction and conservation the books contributors explore three key issues . Nature tourism conservation and development in kwazulu natal south africa authors aylward b lutz e author affiliation the international bank for reconstruction and development the world bank 1818 h street nw washington dc 20433 usa. The book provides an evaluation of and policy advice on key environmental social and economic issues concerning the development of nature tourism using kwazulu natal in south africa as a case study it highlights both the benefits and trade offs i promoting an managing sustainable nature tourism development and it assesses how policy can enhance nature tourisms contribution to economic growth poverty reduction and conservation the books contributors explore three key issues . Using kwazulu natal in south africa as a case study it highlights the benefits and trade offs in promoting and managing sustainable nature tourism development and examines how to promote the objectives of economic growth poverty reduction and conservation three key issues are explored the need to move beyond development of a wildlife industry to the creation of a true nature tourism economy that supports biodiversity the role of the private sector in achieving equitable development and