Environmental orientation in tourism: The RTEO scale

Current Issues in Tourism

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 591-596

  López Bonilla, Jesús Manuel ^a   López Bonilla, Luis Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecotourism; Environmental concern; Scale development; Tourist ecological orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864108808     PISSN: 13683500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2012.657615     Document Type: Letter

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