Perception of local community towards community-based ecotourism

Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 213-218

  Er, A C ^a   Moorthy, Ravichandran ^a   Lyndon, N ^a   Selvadurai, S ^a   Chong, Sheau Tsuey ^a   Adam, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Community based ecotourism; Local community; Perception; Top down

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860854768     PISSN: 19950772     EISSN: 19981090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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