Dolphins, Whales and Ecotourism in New Zealand: What Are the Impacts and How Should the Industry Be Managed?

Nature-Based Tourism in Peripheral Areas: Development or Disaster?

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 231-245

  Orams, Mark ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

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