An empirical assessment of owner-manager motives in the B&B and vacation home sector

Tourism Review

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 27-39

  Schuckert, Markus ^a   Peters, Mike ^b   Fessler, Beate ^b  

^a Institute for Tourism and Leisure Research   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; Owner managers; Tourism; Tourism management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993109349     PISSN: 16605373     EISSN: 17598451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/16605370810912191     Document Type: Article

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