Tourists' intention to visit a country: The impact of cultural distance

Tourism Management

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1497-1506

  Ng, Siew Imm ^a   Lee, Julie Anne ^a   Soutar, Geoffrey N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cultural cluster; Cultural distance; Destination selection; Linguistic distance

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; HERITAGE TOURISM; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 34548270013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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