Why cluster? Text and sub-text in the engagement of tourism development policies with the cluster concept

Stories of Practice: Tourism Policy and Planning

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 335-358

  Weidenfeld, Adi ^a   Williams, Allan M ^b   Butler, Richard W ^c  

^a HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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