Managing marine wildlife tourism activities: Analysis of motivations and specialization levels of divers and whale watchers

Tourism Management Perspectives

Volumn 18, Issue , 2016, Pages 74-83

  Bentz, Julia ^a   Lopes, Fernando ^a   Calado, Helena ^a   Dearden, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Sustainable tourism; Tourism management; Tourist motivation; User specialization; Visitor attitudes; Wildlife tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955274556     PISSN: 22119736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2016.01.004     Document Type: Article

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