Earthquake's influence on inbound tourism: Voices from the travel blogs

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 161, Issue , 2012, Pages 43-53

  Murakami, K H ^a   Kawamura, H ^b   Suzuki, K ^b  

^a SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 Tohoku Earthquake; Inbound tourism; Text mining; Topic words; Travel blogs

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; NATURAL DISASTER; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TOURISM; TSUNAMI;

JAPAN;

EID: 84865533418     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/ST120041     Document Type: Article

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