Digital destinations in the tourist sector: A path model for the impact of e-services on tourist expenditures in Amsterdam

Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 71-80

  Neuts, Bart ^a   Romão, João ^b   Nijkamp, Peter ^b   van Leeuwen, Eveline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Destination; ICT; Internet; Mediatisation; Tourism performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880054892     PISSN: 18644031     EISSN: 1864404X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12076-012-0087-y     Document Type: Article

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