Go Before It’s Gone: The Top Ten Last-Chance Tourist Destinations

Dorathy Gass | September 17, 2018

Most of us all have travel bucket lists, which consist of destinations and cities around the globe we want to head to and check off before we die. Still, there’s a recent travel trend on the rise known as “last-chance tourism” — traveling to spots that are deemed at risk for being wiped out, thanks to climate change, heavy tourism, global warming, and pollution.

While there is a belief out there that a logging of tourist visiting these last-chance destinations will only enhance the issues they have around extinction, some believe that the increased tourists (and the tourism dollars that they bring), just might help the situation so that these areas can be preserved, and many others can enjoy their natural wonders for generations to come.

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