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Greece is one of the richest countries in biodiversity and ecosystem diversity. Protected Areas and National Parks may constitute a key driver of sustainable development and economic revitalization of these areas. An important tool to attract visitors and provide environmental awareness to the public is Internet. Indeed, the quality of a website plays an important role on perception the visitors or potential visitors acquire about the management body of the protected area. In this paper, we make an analysis of the 26 websites of the National Parks that own a website and provide the concluding remarks on the electronic presence of national parks in Greece.
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Martinis, A., Papadatou, A., Kabassi, K. (2019). An Analysis of the Electronic Presence of National Parks in Greece. In: Katsoni, V., Segarra-Oña, M. (eds) Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03910-3_30
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