Culture's consequences on experiencing international tourism services and products: Quantitative and qualitative fuzzy-set testing of an integrative theory of national culture applied to the consumption behaviours of Asian, European and North American consumers

Tourism Management: Analysis, Behaviour and Strategy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 28-61

  Woodside, Arch G ^a   Ahn, Inja ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cultural distance; Fuzzy set; Individualism collectivism; Masculinity; Power distance; Social science.; Tourism; Uncertainty avoidance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956281570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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