The challenges of community-based tourism business ventures in the developing world: A case of Khwai Development Trust, Botswana

Tourism and Developments - Issues and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 227-253

  Stone, Lesego S ^a   Stone, Moren T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

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