Finding the crucial factors for sustainable development of rural-based tourist destinations: Using Nanzhuang, Taiwan as a case study

Service Business

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 623-640

  Tan, Wee Kheng ^a   Liu, Wei Cheng ^b   Hu, Yu Ning ^b  

^a KAINAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNITED UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Destination image; Nanzhuang; Rough sets theory analysis; Rural tourism; Sustainable development; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887401924     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-012-0178-2     Document Type: Article

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