Work hard, play hard: Selling Kelowna, BC, as year-round playground

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 123-139

  Aguiar, Luis L M ^a   Tomic, Patricia ^a   Trumper, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; MARKETING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; KELOWNA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 23244458254     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0008-3658.2005.00084.x     Document Type: Article

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