Measuring environmentally sustainable tourist behaviour

Annals of Tourism Research

Volumn 59, Issue , 2016, Pages 30-44

  Juvan, Emil ^a,b   Dolnicar, Sara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmentally sustainable tourist behaviour; Social desirability bias; Survey research Questionnaire design

Indexed keywords

ECOTOURISM; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RESEARCH; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84966341103     PISSN: 01607383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2016.03.006     Document Type: Article

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