Phuket: Tsunami and tourism-a preliminary investigation

Crisis Management in Tourism

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 217-233

  Gurtner, Yetta K ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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