Analysing intra-destination movements and activity participation of tourists through destination card consumption

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 19-35

  Zoltan, Judit ^a,b   McKercher, Bob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

activity consumption; destination card; discriminant analysis; intra destination movement patterns; segmentation; Ticino

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919840863     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2014.927523     Document Type: Article

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