Business tourism destination competitiveness: A case of Vojvodina Province (Serbia)

Ekonomska Istrazivanja

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 311-332

  Dragićević, Vanja ^a   Jovičić, Dobrica ^b   Blešić, Ivana ^a   Stankov, Uglješa ^a   Bošković, Desimir ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b University of Belgrade   (Serbia)

^c INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE AND TOURISM   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Business tourism; Competitiveness; Destination; Vojvodina

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; COMPETITIVENESS; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST DESTINATION;

SERBIA; VOJVODINA;

EID: 84865131820     PISSN: 1331677X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1331677x.2012.11517510     Document Type: Article

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