Demand for rural tourism: The effects of quality and information

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 183-192

  Skuras, Dimitris ^a   Petrou, Anastasia ^a   Clark, Gordon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agrotourism quality; Composite (heterogeneous) goods; Greece; Information for tourism services; Rural tourism

Indexed keywords

RURAL ECONOMY; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION;

EID: 33747079977     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2006.00151.x     Document Type: Article

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