Ecotourism experiences reported online: Classification of satisfaction attributes

Tourism Management

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 702-712

  Lu, Weilin ^a   Stepchenkova, Svetlana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Costa Rica; Ecotourism; Kruskal Wallis test; Mann Whitney U test; Satisfaction; User generated content (UGC)

Indexed keywords

ECOTOURISM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TYPOLOGY;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 84455191874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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