**5. Discussion, conclusion and recommendation**

This chapter aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies for sustaining NBT amid COVID-19 using LSA. By utilising interrelated typologies, NBT is an essential pillar for socio-economic growth, environmental conservation, and the preservation of culture around the world [1, 6, 35–38, 79]. All the tourism forms listed earlier under the ambit of NBT promote awareness, appreciation, connection to, and the conservation of natural resources, while they also contribute towards socio-economic growth and socio-cultural preservation [40, 41]. The growth and sustainability of NBT are influenced mainly by economic, human, and environmental factors [37, 79, 90, 91]. As its growth and sustainability depend mainly on human mobility, NBT is highly susceptible to severe impacts and operational disruptions when hazardous global phenomena occur [203–205]. COVID-19 thus adversely impacted NBT in terms of ecological and non-ecological benefits [194]. Tourist destinations responded in unique ways to the impact of COVID-19, but some responses were inevitably characterised by marauding and ecocide [194]. However, most NBT activities have been reinstated to full capacity in the aftermath of COVID-19. This was possible due to satisfactory compliance with health protocols, high vaccination roll-outs, declining morbidity and mortality rates, and urgent economic recovery. Against this backdrop, it is heartening to conclude that the strategies implemented to sustain NBT have been reinstated to full capacity in many parts of the world. As the business theory maintains, the aspirations of any business venture, including NBT, should be based on its strategic intent that is communicated through its vision, mission, and goal statement [24, 25]. The recovery and sustainability of NBT cannot be achieved in isolation, but only through collaborative effort [191]. In this context, the SET underscores the importance of strong relationships and collaboration among stakeholders as the key to addressing situations and events that threaten the sustainability of tourism endeavours [30, 31]. To conclude, it is argued that broader insight might be gained into the effectiveness of strategies for sustaining NBT amid hazardous global events if empirical data are obtained by means of the mixed methods approach. It is therefore recommended that future research explores and analyses stakeholders' perspectives on the long-term effectiveness of strategies for sustaining NBT amid hazardous global health crises. Snyder [201] espouses that a systematic literature review is an excellent mechanism for synthesising findings and uncovering areas for future research.

*Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Strategies for Sustaining Nature-Based Tourism amid Global… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.108782*
