Tourists' satisfaction, recommendation and revisiting Singapore

Tourism Management

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 965-975

  Hui, Tak Kee ^a   Wan, David ^a   Ho, Alvin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Hotelling's T2; Paired t test; Recommendation and revisiting; Satisfaction

Indexed keywords

TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST DESTINATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33947598312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2006.08.008     Document Type: Article

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