Measuring Geotourism:Developing and Testing the Geotraveler Tendency Scale (GTS)

Journal of Travel Research

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 567-578

  Boley, B Bynum ^a   Nickerson, Norma Polovitz ^b   Bosak, Keith ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

confirmatory factor analysis; geotourism; scale development; sustainable tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990330560     PISSN: 00472875     EISSN: 15526763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0047287510382295     Document Type: Article

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