A determination of destination competitiveness for taiwan's hot springs tourism sector using the delphi technique

Journal of Vacation Marketing

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 243-257

  Lee, Cheng Fei ^a   King, Brian ^b  

^a SHIH CHIEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competitive analysis; Delphi study; Hot springs tourism; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249199538     PISSN: 13567667     EISSN: 14791870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356766709104270     Document Type: Article

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