Audience Response to Travel Photos and Arab Destination Image

Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 161-164

  Syed Ahmad, Sharifah Fatimah ^a   Musa, Ghazali ^a   Klobas, Jane E ^b   Murphy, Jamie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c TAYLOR S UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Arab League; Muslim image; travel photography; User generated content; visitor employed photography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874621902     PISSN: 10548408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10548408.2013.751279     Document Type: Article

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