A multi-attribute trade-off approach for advancing the management of marine wildlife tourism: A quantitative assessment of heterogeneous visitor preferences

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 194-208

  Semeniuk, Christina A D ^a   Haider, Wolfgang ^a   Beardmore, Ben ^a   Rothley, Kristina D ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human dimensions of wildlife; Latent class analysis; Marine wildlife tourism; Marine tourism management; Stated preference choice model; Stingray

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FEEDING; MARINE PARK; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TRADE-OFF; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAYMAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES;

ANIMALIA; DASYATIDAE;

EID: 65249087503     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.990     Document Type: Article

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