Host image and destination personality

Tourism Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 433-446

  Ekinci, Yuksel ^a   Sirakaya Turk, E ^b   Baloglu, Seyhmus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Branding; Destination branding; Destination personality; Host images

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249204474     PISSN: 10835423     EISSN: 19433999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108354207783227885     Document Type: Article

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