Visitor spending and economic impacts of heritage tourism: A case study of the silos and smokestacks national heritage area

Journal of Heritage Tourism

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 245-256

  Çela, Ariana ^a   Lankford, Sam ^b   Knowles Lankford, Jill ^b  

^a Ministry of Finance   (Albania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic impact; Heritage; Visitor spending

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859909672     PISSN: 1743873X     EISSN: 17476631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17438730802139269     Document Type: Article

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