Attitude change towards guests with disabilities. Reflections From Tourism Students

Annals of Tourism Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 842-857

  Bizjak, Boštjan ^a   Knežević, Mladen ^a   Cvetrežnik, Sebastjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Attitude change; People with disabilities; Semantic differential; Tourism education

Indexed keywords

DISABILITY; EDUCATION; EUROPEAN UNION; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; STUDENT; TOURISM;

EUROPE;

EID: 79959826298     PISSN: 01607383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2010.11.017     Document Type: Article

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