Interactions between climate change and the tourism sector: Multiple-criteria decision analysis to assess mitigation and adaptation options in tourism areas

Tourism Management

Volumn 55, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-12

  Michailidou, Alexandra V ^a   Vlachokostas, Christos ^a   Moussiopoulos, Nicolas ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; ELECTRE III; Mitigation; Multi criteria analysis; Sustainable tourism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECISION ANALYSIS; ECOTOURISM; MITIGATION; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION;

GREECE;

EID: 84957594187     PISSN: 02615177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2016.01.010     Document Type: Article

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