Exploring the Constraint Profile of Winter Sports Resort Tourist Segments

Journal of Travel Research

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 659-671

  Priporas, Constantinos Vasilios ^a   Vassiliadis, Chris A ^b   Bellou, Victoria ^c   Andronikidis, Andreas ^b  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

cluster analysis; leisure constraints; segmentation; winter sports resorts

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; SPORTS FACILITY; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST DESTINATION; WINTER;

GREECE;

EID: 84938928373     PISSN: 00472875     EISSN: 15526763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0047287514528285     Document Type: Article

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