Tourism cluster positioning and performance evaluation: The case of Portugal

Tourism Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 711-730

  Estevao, Cristina ^a   Ferreira, Joao J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Economic performance; Mapping; Portugal; Tourism clusters

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); COMPETITIVENESS; MAPPING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84865240157     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/te.2012.0137     Document Type: Article

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