Sustainable water management - perspectives for tourism development in north-eastern Morocco

Tourism Management Perspectives

Volumn 16, Issue , 2015, Pages 325-334

  Tekken, Vera ^a   Kropp, Jürgen P ^a,b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Economic development; Luxury tourism; North eastern Morocco; Sustainable tourism; SWOT analysis; Water resources management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944042295     PISSN: 22119736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2015.09.001     Document Type: Article

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