Sustainable tourism development strategy by SWOT analysis: Boujagh National Park, Iran

Tourism Management Perspectives

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 223-228

  Reihanian, Anita ^a   Mahmood, Noor Zalina Binti ^a   Kahrom, Esmail ^b   Hin, Tan Wan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Boujagh National Park; Sustainable tourism; SWOT

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868282309     PISSN: 22119736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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