Santa Claus, place branding and competition

Fennia

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-67

  Hall, C Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; RETAILING; SEASONALITY; TOURISM;

EID: 64549090289     PISSN: 00150010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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