The influence of consumer's event quality perception on destination image

Managing Service Quality

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 287-303

  Moon, Kae Sung ^a   Kim, May ^b   Ko, Yong Jae ^c   Connaughton, Daniel P ^c   Lee, Jeoung Hak ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer behaviour; Individual perception; Sporting events; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955939355     PISSN: 09604529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09604521111127974     Document Type: Article

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