Diverting the tourists: A spatial decision-support system for tourism planning on a developing island

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 1999, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 163-174

  Beedasy, Jaishree ^a   Whyatt, Duncan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GIS; Mauritius; MCE; SDSS; Tourism planning

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GIS; SUSTAINABILITY; TOURISM MANAGEMENT;

MAURITIUS;

MAURITIUS;

EID: 12944286544     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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