A destination case study of marketing tourism online: Banff, Canada

Journal of Vacation Marketing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 155-165

  Hudson, Simon ^a   Lang, Norma ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b World Web Technologies   (Canada)

Author keywords

Internet; online travel; travel intermediaries; websites

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644247172     PISSN: 13567667     EISSN: 14791870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135676670200800205     Document Type: Article

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