Developing an evaluation model for destination attractiveness: Sustainable forest recreation tourism in Taiwan

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 811-828

  Lee, Cheng Fei ^a   Huang, Hsun I ^b   Yeh, Huery Ren ^a  

^a SHIH CHIEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b WUFENG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Assessment tools; Nature based tourism; Tourism management

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ECOTOURISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUSTAINABILITY; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION;

TAIWAN;

EID: 77953921602     PISSN: 09669582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09669581003690478     Document Type: Article

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