Building community capacity for locally managed ecotourism in Northern Thailand

Community Development Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 172-185

  Laverack, Glenn ^b   Thangphet, Sopon ^a  

^a National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB)   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; ECOTOURISM; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 63349093547     PISSN: 00103802     EISSN: 14682656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cdj/bsm058     Document Type: Article

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