Off-season tourists and the cultural offer of a mass-tourism destination: The case of Rimini

Tourism Management

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 825-839

  Figini, Paolo ^a   Vici, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business tourism; Choice experiments; Conditional logit; Cultural tourism; Tourism demand; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SERVICE; CULTURAL HERITAGE; HERITAGE TOURISM; INVESTMENT; LOGIT ANALYSIS; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION; TRADE-OFF; TRAVEL DEMAND; URBAN PLANNING;

EMILIA-ROMAGNA; ITALY; RIMINI [EMILIA-ROMAGNA]; RIMINI [RIMINI (PRV)];

EID: 84856444414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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