User generated content: The use of blogs for tourism organisations and tourism consumers

Service Business

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-61

  Akehurst, Gary ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blogs; Internet; Marketing; Tourism; Travel; User generated content

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349213551     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-008-0054-2     Document Type: Article

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