Localisation, globalisation and SMEs in European tourism: The 'virtual enterprise' model of intervention

Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting

Volumn 37, Issue , 2000, Pages 309-318

  Davenport, Elisabeth ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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