The return on investment of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 452-467

  Plaza, Beatriz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; EMPLOYMENT; MUSEUM; TOURISM; URBAN ECONOMY;

BASQUE COUNTRY; BILBAO; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; VIZCAYA;

EID: 33745601146     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00672.x     Document Type: Article

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