Understanding the tourist’s response to natural disasters: The case of the 2011 Queensland floods

Journal of Vacation Marketing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 101-113

  Walters, Gabrielle ^a   Mair, Judith ^b   Ritchie, Brent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Destination image; disaster recovery marketing; tourism and disasters; tourist behaviour; tourist motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919779125     PISSN: 13567667     EISSN: 14791870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356766714528933     Document Type: Article

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