Social Media Data Can Be Used to Understand Tourists’ Preferences for Nature-Based Experiences in Protected Areas

Conservation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Hausmann, Anna ^a   Toivonen, Tuuli ^b   Slotow, Rob ^a,c   Tenkanen, Henrikki ^b   Moilanen, Atte ^b   Heikinheimo, Vuokko ^b   Di Minin, Enrico ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; conservation marketing; ecotourism; Flickr; Instagram; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013447195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12343     Document Type: Letter

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