Competing notions of diversity in archipelago tourism: Transport logistics, official rhetoric and inter-island Rivalry in the Azores

Island Studies Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 84-104

  Baldacchino, Godfrey ^a,b,c   Ferreira, Eduardo Costa Duarte ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^c Università di Corsica Pasqual Paoli   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Archipelago; Azores; Brand consolidation; Hub and spoke; Islands; Pluralism; Rivalry; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877130524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17152593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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