An empirical investigation of attitude theory for tourist destinations: A comparison of visitors and nonvisitors

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 211-224

  Baloglu, Seyhmus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Attitude theory; Cognition; Destination selection; Positioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958854377     PISSN: 10963480     EISSN: 15577554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/109634809802200301     Document Type: Article

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