Testing Heterogeneous Image in Cultural/Non-cultural Tourism Markets: A Latent Model Approach

International Journal of Tourism Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 250-268

  Sánchez Rivero, Marcelino ^a   Pulido Fernández, Juan Ignacio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cultural tourist; Destination management; Homogeneity; Latent class analysis; Simultaneous analysis; Tourism image

Indexed keywords

HERITAGE TOURISM; HOMOGENEITY; MODELING; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST DESTINATION;

ANDALUCIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84858296730     PISSN: 10992340     EISSN: 15221970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jtr.850     Document Type: Article

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