Evaluating travel agents' provision of health advice to travellers

Tourism Management

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-104

  Lawton, G ^a   Page, S ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Health advice; Pacific Islands; Travel agents; Travel medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002553625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-5177(96)00104-5     Document Type: Article

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