Travel agents' destination recommendations

Annals of Tourism Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 661-674

  Klenosky, David B ^a,c   Gitelson, Richard E ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; TOURIST DESTINATION; TRAVEL AGENTS;

EID: 0032122356     PISSN: 01607383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-7383(98)00011-5     Document Type: Article

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