Understanding heterogeneous preference of tourists for big game species: Implications for conservation and management

Animal Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 249-258

  Di Minin, E ^a,b   Fraser, I ^a,c   Slotow, R ^d   Macmillan, D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Big Five; Charismatic; Choice experiment; Latent class model; Marketing; Nature based tourism; Segment

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MARKETING; MODELING; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PROTECTED AREA; TOURISM MARKET;

KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84878463163     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00595.x     Document Type: Article

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