Segmenting outbound tourists based on their activities: Toward experiential consumption spheres in tourism services?

Tourism Review

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 21-43

  Finsterwalder, Jörg ^a   Laesser, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Activity based segmentation; Experiential consumption spheres; Outbound travel; Switzerland; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883699950     PISSN: 16605373     EISSN: 17598451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/TR-05-2013-0023     Document Type: Article

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