Case study on tour guiding: Professionalism, issues and problems

Tourism Management

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 551-563

  Ap, John ^a   Wong, Kevin K F ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Hong Kong; Professionalism; Tour guide association; Tour guiding

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544451629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-5177(01)00013-9     Document Type: Article

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