Using visit frequency to segment ski resorts customers

Journal of Vacation Marketing

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-26

  Tsiotsou, Rodoula ^a  

^a NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

experience; market segmentation; satisfaction; ski resorts; source of information; winter tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052006111     PISSN: 13567667     EISSN: 14791870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356766706059029     Document Type: Article

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