Assessing the vulnerability of beach tourism and non-beach tourism to climate change: A case study from Jamaica

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1197-1215

  Hyman, Tracy Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Community based; Indicators; Inland; Multicriteria analysis; Sensitivity; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST DESTINATION; VULNERABILITY;

JAMAICA;

EID: 84889561267     PISSN: 09669582     EISSN: 17477646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2013.855220     Document Type: Article

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