Searching for experiences: The web-based virtual tour in tourism marketing

Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1-17

  Cho, Yong Hyun ^a   Wang, Youcheng ^a   Fesenmaier, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Destination marketing; Experience marketing; Information technology; Internet; Virtual tour; WWW

Indexed keywords

EID: 10144261669     PISSN: 10548408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J073v12n04_01     Document Type: Article

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