Fiscal implications of moving to tourism finance for parks: Ontario Provincial Parks

Managing Leisure

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-17

  Eagles, Paul F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

fees; park finance; park tourism; privatization; provincial parks; revenue generation; state parks; tourism income; trends

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890692641     PISSN: 13606719     EISSN: 1466450X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13606719.2013.849503     Document Type: Article

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