Current issues in method and practice repertory grid analysis in group settings to elicit salient destination image attributes

Current Issues in Tourism

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 378-392

  Pike, Steven ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Destination image; Repertory grid analysis (RGA); Short breaks; Travel context

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; TOURIST DESTINATION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34548295886     PISSN: 13683500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/citMP010.0     Document Type: Article

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