Russia's destination image among American pleasure travelers: Revisiting Echtner and Ritchie

Tourism Management

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 548-560

  Stepchenkova, Svetlana ^a   Morrison, Alastair M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective image; CATPAC; Content analysis; Destination image; Russia; Stereotypical holistic image; Uniqueness image; WORDER

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 38849118258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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