The Dimensions of the Tourist Experience

The Tourism and Leisure Experience: Consumer and Managerial Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3-26

  Cutler, Sarah Quinlan ^a   Carmichael, Barbara A ^a,b  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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