Dance as a tourism activity: Demographics, demand characteristics, motivation, and segmentation

Tourism Analysis

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 277-290

  Mccleary, Ken W ^a   Weaver, Pamela A ^a   Meng, Fang ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dance event motivation; Event tourism; Factor cluster analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 62149134482     PISSN: 10835423     EISSN: 19433999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108354205775322970     Document Type: Article

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