Postcards as affective image makers: An idle agent in destination marketings

Tourism Management

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 714-725

  Yüksel, Atila ^a   Akgül, Olcay ^a  

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Affective image; Destination choice; Emotions; Image formation; Postcards

Indexed keywords

IMAGE; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EID: 43849113116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2006.04.026     Document Type: Article

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