The importance of destination attributes: Western and Asian visitors

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Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 236-253

  Reisinger, Yvette ^a   Mavondo, Felix T ^b   Crotts, John C ^c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Destination attributes importance; Hofstede; National culture

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EID: 67449142838     PISSN: 13032917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13032917.2009.10518907     Document Type: Article

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