Monitoring recreation across European nature areas: A geo-database of visitor counts, a review of literature and a call for a visitor counting reporting standard

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism

Volumn 18, Issue , 2017, Pages 44-55

  Schägner, Jan Philipp ^a   Maes, Joachim ^a   Brander, Luke ^b   Paracchini, Maria Luisa ^a   Hartje, Volkmar ^c   Dubois, Gregoire ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nature recreation; Reporting standard; Visitor counting review; Visitor data sharing; Visitor monitoring; Visitor statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015407460     PISSN: 22130780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2017.02.004     Document Type: Article

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