Old wine in new bottles: Are Malaysia's tourism markets converging?

Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 263-272

  Tang, Chor Foon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Convergence hypothesis; Malaysia; Tourism markets; Unit root test

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE; MARKETING; TOURISM MARKET;

MALAYSIA;

EID: 79957821458     PISSN: 10941665     EISSN: 17416507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10941665.2011.572661     Document Type: Article

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