How motivations, constraints, and demographic factors predict seniors' overseas travel propensity

Asia Pacific Management Review

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 301-312

  Chen, Ching Fu ^a   Wu, Chine Chiu ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NANHUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Constraint; Logistic regression; Seniors; Travel motivation; Travel propensity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953578574     PISSN: 10293132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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