Cruise Passengers in a Homeport: A Market Analysis

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 68-87

  Brida, Juan Gabriel ^a   Pulina, Manuela ^b   Riaño, Eugenia ^a   Zapata Aguirre, Sandra ^c  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c Epidemiology Section   (Colombia)

Author keywords

classification and regression tree; Colombia; Cruise tourism; customer segmentation; hierarchical cluster; market analysis; policy implications; South America

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

BOLIVAR [COLOMBIA]; CARTAGENA [BOLIVAR]; COLOMBIA;

EID: 84873674733     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2012.675510     Document Type: Article

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