Are you a tourist? Tourism definition from the tourist perspective

Tourism Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 445-457

  Yu, Xiaojuan ^a,b   Kim, Namhyun ^a,c   Chen, Chih Chien ^d   Schwartz, Zvi ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Sejong University   (South Korea)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance threshold; Tourism definition; Tourism statistics; Tourist self categorization; Usual environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874149572     PISSN: 10835423     EISSN: 19433999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108354212X13473157390687     Document Type: Article

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