Sustainability of nature: The power of the type of visitors

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2437-2447

  Cordente Rodríguez, María ^a   Mondéjar Jiménez, Juan Antonio ^a   Villanueva Álvaro, Juan José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental concern; Latent class segmentation; Natural resource; Rural and nature tourism and visitor profile

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940741411     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: 18433707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2014.273     Document Type: Article

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