The tourist experience: Exploring the relationship between tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty

Tourism

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-126

  Da Costa Mendes, Júlio ^a   Do Valle, Patrícia Oom ^a   Guerreiro, Maria Manuela ^a   Silva, João Albino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Destination loyalty; Multiple group analysis; Portugal; Satisfaction; Structural equation modelling; Tourism experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956693158     PISSN: 13327461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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