Assessing hiking trails condition in two popular tourist destinations in the Icelandic highlands

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism

Volumn 3-4, Issue , 2013, Pages 57-67

  Ólafsdóttir, Rannveig ^a   Runnström, Micael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Condition scale; GIS; Hiking trails; Iceland; Tourism environmental impact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890100686     PISSN: 22130780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

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