Potential assessment of nature-based tourism destinations using MCA techniques (case study: Lavasan-e Koochak)

Journal of Environmental Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 55, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Ashouri, P ^a   Faryadi, Sh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Multi criteria analysis; Nature based tourism; Principal component analysis and cluster analysis; Weighted linear combination

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751532186     PISSN: 10258620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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