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Explaining the Residents’ Attitudes Towards Tourism Development in the Spanish Province of Huelva

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The development of the tourism industry in the province of Huelva, situated the extreme southwest of Spain, with a population of around half a million inhabitants, is a recent phenomenon but one that is beginning to impinge palpably on the physiognomy of the area and the way of life of the communities that are affected by the rapid growth of this economic activity.

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  1. GEIDETUR, Departamento de Dirección de Empresas y Marketing, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain

    Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez, Nuria Porras-Bueno & María de los Ángeles Plaza-Mejía

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  1. School of Economics and Business, Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Rua da Junqueira 188-198, Lisboa, 1349-001, Portugal

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  3. School of Economics and Business, Head of the Tourism Department, Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Rua da Junqueira 188-198, Lisboa, 1349-001, Portugal

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Vargas-Sánchez, A., Porras-Bueno, N., Plaza-Mejía, M.d.l.Á. (2011). Explaining the Residents’ Attitudes Towards Tourism Development in the Spanish Province of Huelva. In: Matias, Á., Nijkamp, P., Sarmento, M. (eds) Tourism Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2725-5_15

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