Agritourism marketing distribution strategy and typology investigation. the case of arcadia

Tourismos

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 131-152

  Katsoni, Vicky ^a   Dionysopoulou, Panagiota ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agritourism; Tourism Distribution Channels; Tourism Marketing; Typology Information Search Behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966349652     PISSN: 17908418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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