Understanding China's long-haul outbound travel market: An overlapped segmentation approach

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 786-793

  Uysal, Muzaffer ^b  

^a Robert)   (United States)

^b PAMPLIN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS   (United States)

Author keywords

Canonical correlation analysis; Chinese outbound travel; Overlapped segmentation; Push pull model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875805784     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.09.019     Document Type: Article

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