Tourism skills delivery: Sharing tourism knowledge online

Education and Training

Volumn 48, Issue 8-9, 2006, Pages 693-703

  Braun, Patrice ^a   Hollick, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Knowledge sharing; Skills; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751409670     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400910610710100     Document Type: Article

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