Visitors' learning for environmental sustainability: Testing short- and long-term impacts of wildlife tourism experiences using structural equation modelling

Tourism Management

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1243-1252

  Ballantyne, Roy ^a   Packer, Jan ^a   Falk, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental behaviour; Environmental learning; Tourist behaviour; Visitor experiences; Wildlife tourism

Indexed keywords

ECOTOURISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; LEARNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUSTAINABILITY; TESTING METHOD; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79960292976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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