An exploratory use of web content analysis to understand cruise tourism services

International Journal of Tourism Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 157-168

  Brejla, Paul ^a   Gilbert, David ^b  

^a Cruise Industry   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co creation; Content analysis; Cruise tourism; Web mining

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; METHODOLOGY; SHIPPING; TOURISM; WORLD WIDE WEB;

VINDULA ARSINOE;

EID: 84896727901     PISSN: 10992340     EISSN: 15221970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jtr.1910     Document Type: Article

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