Backpacker tourism in the Brazilian Amazon: Challenges and opportunities

Tourism in Brazil: Environment, Management and Segments

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 123-140

  Rodrigues, Cristina ^b   Prideaux, Bruce ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

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EID: 84906475537     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203121801     Document Type: Chapter

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