Come on home: Visiting friends and relatives-the cape breton experience

Event Management

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 309-318

  Brown, Keith G ^a  

^a CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cape breton island; Special events and attractions tourism marketing; VFR segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751696571     PISSN: 15259951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/152599510X12901814777943     Document Type: Article

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