Factors affecting outbound tourists' destination choice: The case of Hong Kong

Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 556-566

  Guillet, Basak Denizci ^a   Lee, Andy ^a   Law, Rob ^a   Leung, Rosanna ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Destination choice; Hong Kong; Residents; Travel

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960717551     PISSN: 10548408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10548408.2011.588120     Document Type: Article

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