Fascinating remoteness: The dilemma of hiking tourism development in peripheral mountain areas

Mountain Research and Development

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 320-331

  Boller, Florian ^a,b   Hunziker, Marcel ^b   Conedera, Marco ^b   Elsasser, Hans ^a   Krebs, Patrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

hiking tourism; landscape preferences; natural areas; nature based tourism; purism scale; Remoteness; Switzerland; visitor survey

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; ECOTOURISM; MOUNTAIN REGION; PERIPHERAL REGION; POLICY APPROACH; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 78649521966     PISSN: 02764741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-10-00018.1     Document Type: Article

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