Assessing and managing the sociocultural impacts of ecotourism: Revisiting the Santa Elena rainforest project

Environmentalist

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 117-133

  Wearing, Stephen ^a   Larsen, Libby ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECOTOURISM; RAINFOREST RESERVE; SOCIOCULTURAL IMPACT; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM IMPACT;

COSTA RICA, SANTA ELENA;

EID: 0029662384     PISSN: 02511088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01325103     Document Type: Article

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