Tourist Behaviour and Repeat Visitation to Hong Kong

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 99-118

  Wang, Donggen ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Repeat visitation; Tourist behaviour; Tourist spending

Indexed keywords

MARKET CONDITIONS; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

EID: 1642528919     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616680320001722355     Document Type: Article

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