The perception of small and medium sized tourism accommodation providers on the impacts of the tour operators' power in Eastern Mediterranean

Tourism Management

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 151-170

  Bastakis, Constantinos ^a   Buhalis, Dimitrios ^a   Butler, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dependency; Greece; Mediterranean; Power; SMTE; Tour operators

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION; POWER RELATIONS; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; TOURISM;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 1142281102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-5177(03)00098-0     Document Type: Article

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