Fit for purpose: Delivering wellness tourism through people

Wellness Tourism: A Destination Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 130-143

  Baum, Tom ^a   Lockstone Binney, Leonie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b Victoria University Business School   (Australia)

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