Examining the Influence of the Wine Festival Experience on Tourists' Quality of Life

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 435-452

  Kruger, Stefan ^a   Rootenberg, Cindy ^a   Ellis, Suria ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Quality of life (QoL); Satisfaction; Structural equation modelling (SEM); Wine festival; Wine tourism experience

Indexed keywords

EQUATION; MODELING; QUALITY OF LIFE; TOURISM; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

ROBERTSON; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 84874562235     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-012-0013-0     Document Type: Article

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