Professional certification: A mechanism to enhance ecotour guide performance

Quality Assurance and Certification in Ecotourism

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 316-336

  Black, Rosemary ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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