Tourism, conservation areas and local development in namibia: Spatial perspectives of private and public sector reform

Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa: Local Communities and Natural Resources in Transition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 93-116

  Becker, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA   (Namibia)

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