Travelling 'green': Is tourists' happiness at stake?

Current Issues in Tourism

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 381-392

  Nawijn, Jeroen ^a,b   Peeters, Paul M ^a  

^a NHTV BREDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Air travel; Climate change; Happiness; Subjective well being; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST DESTINATION;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 77956862988     PISSN: 13683500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13683500903215016     Document Type: Article

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