Industrial economics and pricing issues within tourism enterprises and markets

International Handbook on the Economics of Tourism

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 138-154

  Bull, Adrian O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

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