A taste of tourism: Visitors' motivations to attend a food festival

Event Management

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-161

  Chang, Wanching ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Festival motivation framework; Food festivals; Visitors' motivations

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054748068     PISSN: 15259951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/152599511X13082349958190     Document Type: Article

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