Wayfinding Strategies and Tourist Anxiety in Unfamiliar Destinations

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 529-550

  Chang, Hsuan Hsuan ^a  

^a MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

international tourist; orientation strategy; route strategy; Wayfinding; wayfinding anxiety; wayfinding strategy

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION;

ITALY; TAIWAN; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE;

EID: 84880947462     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2012.726270     Document Type: Article

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