An investigation of factors determining cycling experience and frequency

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 844-862

  Lee, Cheng Fei ^a  

^a Department of Marketing Management Shih Chian University   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

bicycle tourism; bicyclists; binary logistic regression; destination attributes; Taiwan; tourist satisfaction

Indexed keywords

MARKETING; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SERVICE PROVISION; TOURISM; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST DESTINATION;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84911456106     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2014.927524     Document Type: Article

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