CSR-inspired environmental initiatives in top hotel chains

Tourism Enterprises and the Sustainability Agenda across Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 93-120

  Bohdanowicz, Paulina ^a   Zientara, Piotr ^b  

^a Metropolitan University   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

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