Tourist information search and destination choice in a digital age

Tourism Management Perspectives

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-47

  Jacobsen, Jens Kr Steen ^a   Munar, Ana María ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Destination choice; Electronic social network; Independent tourist; Information search; Internet use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861125085     PISSN: 22119736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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