A closer look at destination: Image, personality, relationship and loyalty

Tourism Management

Volumn 36, Issue , 2013, Pages 269-278

  Chen, Ching Fu ^a   Phou, Sambath ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Destination branding; Image; Loyalty; Personality; Relationship

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; COGNITION; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION; EQUATION; TOURISM MANAGEMENT;

CAMBODIA;

EID: 84872459395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2012.11.015     Document Type: Article

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