Measuring tourist motivation: Do scales matter?

Tourismos

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 153-162

  Huang, Songshan Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Measurement; Scale; Tourist motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953267785     PISSN: 17908418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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