Too dark to revisit? The role of past experiences and intrapersonal constraints

Tourism Management

Volumn 54, Issue , 2016, Pages 452-464

  Zhang, Honglei ^a   Yang, Yang ^b   Zheng, Chunhui ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark tourism; Intrapersonal constraints; Past experience; Revisit intention

Indexed keywords

CRIME; MEMORY; TOURISM; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; WAR;

CHINA; JIANGSU; NANJING [JIANGSU];

EID: 84989299860     PISSN: 02615177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2016.01.002     Document Type: Article

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