The accessibility of Queensland visitor information centres' websites

Tourism Management

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 829-841

  Shi, Yuquan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Disability; Visitor information centre; Website

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 33745992026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2005.05.012     Document Type: Article

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