“…Many studies conducted in the samples of local residents and other stakeholders conclude that ecotourism in protected areas generates income and yields benefits for local residents (Baker 1997;Green & Higginbottom 2000;Landell-Mills & Porras 2002;Christ, Hillel, Matus & Sweeting, 2004;Ezebilo & Mattsson 2010;Gan, Nair & Hamzah, 2019;Mu, Nepal & Lai 2019;Puri, Karanth & Thapa. 2019;Tretiakova, Brankov, Petrović, Syromiatnikova, Radovanović & Yakovlev, 2019).…”