Integrated destination competitiveness model: Testing its validity and data accessibility

Tourism Analysis

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-17

  Dwyer, Larry ^a,b   Cvelbar, Ljubica Knežević ^b   Mihalič, Tanja ^b   Koman, Matjaž ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Competitiveness attributes; Destination competitiveness; Integrated model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916885166     PISSN: 10835423     EISSN: 19433999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108354214X13927625340073     Document Type: Article

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