Touring responsibility: The trouble with 'going local' in community-based tourism in Thailand

Geoforum

Volumn 51, Issue , 2014, Pages 96-106

  Sin, Harng Luh ^a,b   Minca, Claudio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Care; Community; Community based tourism; Local; Responsibility; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LIFESTYLE; LOCAL ECONOMY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT;

THAILAND;

ELEPHANTIDAE;

EID: 84887381386     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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