Ecotourism equations: Do economic benefits equal conservation?

Ecotourism and Conservation in the Americas

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 163-176

  De Vasconcellos Pêgas, Fernanda ^a   Stronza, Amanda ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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