What tourists worry about - Construction of a scale measuring tourist worries

Tourism Management

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 260-265

  Larsen, Svein ^a,b   Brun, Wibecke ^a   Øgaard, Torvald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Risk perception; Scale development; Tourist worry scale; TWS

Indexed keywords

PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RISK PERCEPTION; TESTING METHOD; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 58249144962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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