Tourism consumption and tourist behaviour: A British perspective

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 264-289

  Shaw, Gareth ^a   Agarwal, Sheela ^b   Bull, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision MAKING; Image Formation; Tourism Behaviour; Tourist HOST Interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001112091     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616680050082526     Document Type: Article

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