A model of senior tourism motivations-Anecdotes from Beijing and Shanghai

Tourism Management

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1262-1273

  Hsu, Cathy H C ^a   Cai, Liping A ^b,c   Wong, Kevin K F ^a  

^a THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Motivation; Senior

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; GLOBALIZATION; MODELING; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHANGHAI;

EID: 34250221478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2006.09.015     Document Type: Article

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