The destination image of Russia: From the online induced perspective

Tourism Management

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 943-956

  Stepchenkova, Svetlana ^a   Morrison, Alastair M ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CATPAC; Content analysis; Destination image; Induced image; Russia; WORDER

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 33746093506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2005.10.021     Document Type: Article

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