Food tourism as a viable market segment: It's all how you cook the numbers!

Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-148

  McKercher, Bob ^a   Okumus, Fevzi ^b   Okumus, Bendegul ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Destination marketing; Food tourism; Hong Kong; Special interest tourism; Urban tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650502427     PISSN: 10548408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10548400802402404     Document Type: Article

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