Indicating the competitiveness of Serbia's Vojvodina Region as an emerging tourism destination

Tourism Management Perspectives

Volumn 8, Issue , 2013, Pages 68-79

  Mulec, Ivo ^a   Wise, Nicholas ^b  

^a TIMS Faculty of Sport and Tourism   (Serbia)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Destination competitiveness; Destination management; Integrated Model; Vojvodina

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882779451     PISSN: 22119736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2013.07.001     Document Type: Article

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