The socially aware baby boomer: Gaining a lifestyle-based understanding of the new wave of ecotourists

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 173-190

  Cleaver, Megan ^a   Muller, Thomas E ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HAGOROMO UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; ECOTOURISM; LIFESTYLE; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

AUSTRALIA; CANADA; NEW ZEALAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036396660     PISSN: 09669582     EISSN: 17477646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09669580208667161     Document Type: Article

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