Volunteer tourism – An ambiguous marketing phenomenon

Innovative Marketing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 42-47

  Tomazos, Konstantinos ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Leisure; Marketing; Volunteer tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862649913     PISSN: 18142427     EISSN: 18166326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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