Multi-criteria analysis in ecotourism: Using goal programming to explore sustainable solutions

Current Issues in Tourism

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 20-43

  Zografos, Christos ^a   Oglethorpe, David ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecotourism; Ecuador; Multi Criteria Analysis; Participatory planning

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ECOTOURISM; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 2442699344     PISSN: 13683500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13683500408667971     Document Type: Article

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