Agreement and disagreement in family vacation decision-making

Tourism Management

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 967-979

  Bronner, Fred ^a   de Hoog, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disagreement resolution strategy; Dyadic (dis)agreement; Holiday decision making; Tourism marketing; Vacation decisions

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; DECISION MAKING; MARKETING; OUTDOOR RECREATION; TOURISM;

EID: 48649108937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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