How sustainable is Mekong tourism?

Sustainable Tourism: A Global Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 140-166

  Pleumarom, Anita ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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