African Nature-Based
Tourism Platform

Facilitating access to funding and building the longer term resilience of the nature-based tourism sector in eastern and southern Africa

© Nikhil Advani / WWF-US

The COVID-19 crisis has crippled economies and industries all over the world, and nature-based tourism has been one of the leading economic casualties. For many eastern and southern African countries, this means a significant loss of funding for their conservation operations, local community livelihoods, and tourism enterprises.

Using a bottom-up approach, the African Nature-Based Tourism Platform is gathering data on impacts to communities and SMEs from the COVID-19 crisis, facilitating learning and knowledge exchange, identifying funding opportunities, and developing funding proposals with communities and SMEs.

Explore the data gathered by platform partners, country summary reports produced from the data, participate as a beneficiary or funder, sign up for our newsletter, or contact us with any questions.

© Nikhil Advani / WWF-US

© Nikhil Advani / WWF-US

© Nikhil Advani / WWF-US

© Nikhil Advani / WWF-US