Planning ecotourism in up-country tea estates in sri lanka: Testing a ‘Tourism potential index’

Tourism and Hospitality, Planning and Development

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-74

  Galagoda, R K B ^a   Gajanayake, K G M C P B ^a   Silva, A C S ^b  

^a WAYAMBA UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

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EID: 84861319444     PISSN: 1479053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14790530600727581     Document Type: Article

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