Contribution of networking and clustering in rural tourism business

Tourismos

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 35-55

  Soteriades, Marios D ^a   Tyrogala, Evangelia D ^b   Varvaressos, Stelios I ^c  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Case study; Clusters networks; Greece; Rural tourism business

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651505153     PISSN: 17908418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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