Perceptions and attitudes of undergraduate tourism students towards working in the tourism industry in Turkey

Tourism Management

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 251-269

  Kusluvan, Salih ^a   Kusluvan, Zeynep ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; TOURISM;

TURKEY;

EID: 0034034411     PISSN: 02615177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-5177(99)00057-6     Document Type: Article

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