Business goals in the small-scale accommodation sector in New Zealand

Tourism SMES, Service Quality and Destination Competitiveness

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 143-154

  Michael Hall, C ^a   Rusher, Kristy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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