Leisure parks and destination redevelopment: The case of PortAventura, Catalonia

Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 66-78

  Clavé, Salvador Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Life cycle; Mass tourism destinations; Policy implementation; Portaventura; Theme parks

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960896254     PISSN: 19407963     EISSN: 19407971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19407960903542326     Document Type: Article

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