A second-order factor analysis model for measuring tourists' overall image of Algarve, Portugal

Tourism Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 539-554

  Silvestre, António Luís ^a   Correia, Antónia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Algarve; Confirmatory factor analysis; Destination image; Portugal

Indexed keywords

IMAGE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; TOURISM;

ALGARVE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 31744451964     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000005775108773     Document Type: Article

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