Wellness tourism: Evaluating destination attributes for tourism planning in a competitive segment market

Tourismos

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 113-125

  Didascalou, Eleni ^a   Lagos, Dimitrios ^b   Nastos, Panagiotis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; Climate; Spa health wellness tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651477436     PISSN: 17908418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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