Assessing compliance to guidelines by dolphin-watching operators in Clearwater, Florida, USA

Tourism in Marine Environments

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 117-130

  Whitt, Amy D ^a,b   Read, Andrew J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Geo Marine Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphin; Dolphin watching; Education; Human impacts; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248385295     PISSN: 1544273X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/154427306779435265     Document Type: Article

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