The geographical space of China's tourism websites

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 66-80

  Liu, Jia ^a   Zhang, Jie ^b   Wall, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese tourism websites; Cyberspace; Internet; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; INTERNET; PUBLIC ACCESS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURIST DESTINATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 38649140705     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616680701825180     Document Type: Article

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