Maximising the Local Pro-Poor Impacts of Dive Tourism: Sodwana Bay, South Africa

Urban Forum

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 85-104

  Mograbi, Jonathan ^a   Rogerson, Christian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Local development; Small business development

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956313431     PISSN: 10153802     EISSN: 18746330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12132-007-9002-9     Document Type: Article

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