A consumer-based model of authenticity: An oxymoron or the foundation of cultural heritage marketing?

Tourism Management

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 652-664

  Kolar, Tomaz ^a   Zabkar, Vesna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Authenticity; Cultural heritage tourism; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HERITAGE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HERITAGE TOURISM; MARKETING; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EUROPE;

EID: 77952322921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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