Tourists' and locals' preferences toward ecotourism development in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 303-318

  Hearne, Robert R ^a   Santos, C Alejandro ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CATIE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Choice experiments; Choice modelling; Ecotourism; Guatemala; Maya Biosphere Reserve; National parks; Protected area management; Tikal

Indexed keywords

ECOTOURISM; NATIONAL PARK; PROTECTED AREA; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; STAKEHOLDER; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

CENTRAL AMERICA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; MAYA BIOSPHERE RESERVE; PETEN; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 26844511776     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-004-2944-3     Document Type: Article

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