Identifying and mapping forest-based ecotourism areas in West Virginia - Incorporating visitors' preferences

Tourism Management

Volumn 42, Issue , 2014, Pages 165-176

  Dhami, Ishwar ^a   Deng, Jinyang ^a   Burns, Robert C ^a   Pierskalla, Chad ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic Hierarchy Process; Criteria weight; Forest based ecotourism; Geographic information system; Naturalness continuum; Pairwise comparison; Suitability index; Visitors' preferences

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ECOTOURISM; FOREST; GIS; MAPPING; TOURIST DESTINATION;

UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 84890393531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2013.11.007     Document Type: Article

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