Wine tourists' use of sources of information when visiting a USA wine region

Journal of Vacation Marketing

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 221-237

  Bruwer, Johan ^a   Thach, Liz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer behaviour; information sources; tasting room; US; wine tourism; word of mouth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879765855     PISSN: 13567667     EISSN: 14791870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356766712464768     Document Type: Article

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