Introduction: Sustainability, the European union and tourism

Tourism Enterprises and the Sustainability Agenda across Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-14

  Leslie, David ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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