Segmentation by craft selection criteria and shopping involvement

Tourism Management

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1079-1092

  Hu, Bo ^a   Yu, Hong ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Craft selection; Market segmentation; Souvenir shopping; Tourism shopping; Travel behaviors

Indexed keywords

SHOPPING ACTIVITY; TOURISM MARKET; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33947595825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2006.07.006     Document Type: Article

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