Carrying capacity assessment for tourist destinations. Methodology for the creation of synthetic indicators applied in a coastal area

Tourism Management

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1337-1346

  Navarro Jurado, E ^a   Tejada Tejada, M ^b   Almeida Garcia F ^a   Cabello Gonzalez J ^a   Cortes Macias R ^a   Delgado Pena J ^a   Fernandez Gutierrez F ^c   Gutierrez Fernandez G ^a   Luque Gallego, M ^a   Malvarez Garcia G ^b   Marcenaro Gutierrez O ^a   Navas Concha, F ^b   Ruiz de la Rua F ^a   Ruiz Sinoga, J ^a   Solis Becerra F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carrying capacity; Coastal management; Costa del Sol; Indicators; Multicriteria analyses

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARRYING CAPACITY; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION;

ANDALUCIA; COSTA DEL SOL; SPAIN;

EID: 84863204074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.12.017     Document Type: Article

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