Travel distance: A tool for nature-based tourism market segmentation

Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing

Volumn 25, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 355-366

  Nyaupane, Gyan P ^a   Graefe, Alan R ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance decay; Geography; Gravity; Inertia; National forest; Nature based; Segmentation; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650496642     PISSN: 10548408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10548400802508457     Document Type: Article

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