Visitor monitoring along roads and hiking trails: How to determine usage levels in tourist sites

Tourism Management

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 16-28

  Wolf, Isabelle D ^a   Hagenloh, Gerald ^a   Croft, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

GPS tracking; Usage intensity; Visitor impacts; Visitor monitoring; Visitor survey

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GPS; MONITORING; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION; TRACKING;

AUSTRALIA; FLINDERS RANGE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80052462605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.01.019     Document Type: Article

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