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RIGHTS AND WRONGS IN NATIONAL PARK TOURISM

January 2013

January 2013
50(1):30

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Griffith University

State governments in Australia should resist calls to allow private tourist developments inside national parks, says tourism researcher Ralf Buckley.

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