The influence of gender on travel risk perceptions, safety, and travel intentions

Tourism Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 793-807

  Reisinger, Yvette ^a   Crotts, John C ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Risk perceptions; Safety perceptions; Travel intentions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869398928     PISSN: 10835423     EISSN: 19433999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108354210X12645141401269     Document Type: Article

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