Using cluster analysis to segment a sample of Australian ecotourists

Tourism Research Methods: Integrating Theory with Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 211-220

  Weaver, David ^a   Lawton, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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