Multidimensional scaling in tourism literature

Tourism Management Perspectives

Volumn 12, Issue , 2014, Pages 31-40

  Marcussen, Carl ^a  

^a Centre for Regional and Tourism Research   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Destinations; Image; Multidimensional scaling; Positioning; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905365320     PISSN: 22119736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2014.07.003     Document Type: Article

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