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After two years of pandemic lockdowns and border closures, global travel appears to be rebounding in much of the world in 2022. Wilderness is a big tourist attraction—but do countries that protect their natural environments earn a payoff in tourism revenues? Alejandra Echeverri Ochoa from Stanford University, and Jeffrey R. Smith from Princeton University find out.

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