Describing the relationships between tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty in a segmented and digitalized market

Tourism Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 987-1004

  Neuts, Bart ^a   Romão, João ^b   Van Leeuwen, Eveline ^b   Nijkamp, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Destination loyalty; Destination management; E services; ICT; Tourist satisfaction

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; GLOBALIZATION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST DESTINATION;

GERMANY; LEIPZIG; SAXONY;

EID: 84890543205     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/te.2013.0332     Document Type: Article

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