Competitiveness of Croatian nautical tourism

Tourism in Marine Environments

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-161

  Horak, Sinisa ^a   Marusic, Zrinka ^a   Favro, Srecko ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR TOURISM   (Croatia)

^b Adriatic Expert   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Croatia; Marina; Marine tourism; Nautical tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248392683     PISSN: 1544273X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/154427306779435274     Document Type: Article

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