Understanding lifestyle entrepreneurs and digging beneath the issue of profits: Profiling surf tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs in Ireland

Tourism Planning and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-183

  Marchant, Ben ^a   Mottiar, Ziene ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

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EID: 79958856534     PISSN: 21568316     EISSN: 21568324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21568316.2011.573917     Document Type: Article

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