Attitudes of the cultural tourist: A latent segmentation approach

Journal of Cultural Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-129

  Pulido Fernández, Juan Ignacio ^a   Sánchez Rivero, Marcelino ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Andalusia; Cultural tourism; Latent class analysis; Log linear models; Market segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951975117     PISSN: 08852545     EISSN: 15736997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10824-010-9115-1     Document Type: Article

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