Leisure travel expenditure patterns by family life cycle stages

Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 15-30

  Hong, Gong Soog ^a   Fan, Jessie X ^b   Palmer, Lance ^c   Bhargava, Vibha ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Family life cycle; Leisure travel; Travel expenditure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986198600     PISSN: 10548408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J073v18n02_02     Document Type: Article

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