Understanding Resort Visitors through Segmentation

Tourism and Hospitality Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-71

  Inbakaran, Robert ^a   Jackson, Mervyn ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Australia; cluster; lifestyle; market segments; resort tourist; segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996188759     PISSN: 14673584     EISSN: 17429692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.thr.6040044     Document Type: Article

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