A comparison of global and actual measures of perceived crowding of urban forest visitors

Journal of Leisure Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 668-685

  Arnberger, Arne ^a   Haider, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crowding; Intra individual analysis; Past experience; Repeat users; Visitor counts

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT METHOD; TOURISM; URBAN FORESTRY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 36549032870     PISSN: 00222216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222216.2007.11950127     Document Type: Article

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