Assessment of a comfort indicator for natural tourist attractions: The case of visitors to hanging rock, victoria?

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 393-409

  Morgan, Damian J ^a   Lok, Luke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST ATTRACTION;

AUSTRALIA; HANGING ROCK; VICTORIA;

EID: 0034469198     PISSN: 09669582     EISSN: 17477646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09669580008667375     Document Type: Article

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