once canopying was in regular use for research it trickled over into ecotourism - costa rica is considered to be the first place canopying was utilized as leisure - at the same time france was converting the activity into a sport. nowadays, canopying is a premier ecotourism activity across the world - due to its wealth of untouched nature, brazil is one of the most popular countries to practice the activity.

in 2001 canopying was first introduced in brotas, são paulo, as an adventure tourism safe course - unknown to the country before this time, it quickly moved through the country - landing in rio de janeiro in 2002, the first place to offer canopy tours was florestaventura park.