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Birding & Bird Watching Tourism
Are you a birding or bird watching guide or do you run birding tours or bird watching holidays? Do you run a birding lodge, bird watching park or resort that offers birding or bird watching holidays? Perhaps you organize bird watching holidays, birding tours or adventure birding vacations? Whether you run a small bird guiding outfit, a birdwatching lodge or whole bird watching destination we can help you with your cost effective marketing, promotion, training, public relations, PR and development!
Contact us at HDC and see how we can help!
Birding & Bird Watching Tourism
Over the years HDC has been involved in developing and promoting a wide variety of important bird watching destinations & birding businesses around the world. We have undertaken bird watching projects for NGO's, birdwatching tour operators, birding reserves, bird watching parks and birding guide outfits in Chile, The Gambia, Belize, Costa Rica, South Africa, Canada, the USA and the UK.
 Bird watching and birding is a booming international business opportunity that attracts low volume, low impact and high return visitors that boost rural tourism economies and support jobs in rural areas. Bird watching and birding remains one of worlds leading recreational activities. With more accessible birding and bird watching destinations available, there has been a massive increase in the number of internationally itinerant bird watching and birding tourists traveling the world in search of birds to tick off the "life" list.
Find out what HDC can do for you! Are you a birdwatching business or destination that needs help getting more visitors? Do you need help setting up a birdwatching business or developing your product? Then contact us at HDC and find out we can help!
Did you know? According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service nearly a third of Americans age 16 and older (that’s 70 million people!) fed, photographed, and observed wildlife in 2006, and they spent $45 billion doing so!
Did you know? According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2006 survey, the number of wildlife watchers has grown by 8% since 2001 and spending on bird food and wildlife-watching equipment such as binoculars, cameras, and bird feeders has risen by 18%.
Did you know? In the US over 47.7 million birders on average spent part of 115 days in 2006 pursuing their interest. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2006 survey defines two wildlife-watching categories: around the home and more than a mile from home. Eighty-eight percent of birders (almost 42 million) observe birds around the home, while 42 percent (almost 20 million) take birding trips.
Did you know? Wildlife watching in the US is most popular in the West-North-Central region (the Dakotas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska) and New England. The West-North-Central region also leads in away-from-home watching.
Did you know? In the UK there are over 1,000,000 members of the RSPB.
Did you know? In the US it is estimated that there are over 3,000,000 dedicated bird watchers.
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