The Golf Players' Motivations: The Algarve Case

Tourism and Hospitality Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 227-238

  Correia, Antonia ^a   Pintassilgo, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

choice; cluster analysis; demand; golf; motivations; principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996239264     PISSN: 14673584     EISSN: 17429692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.thr.6050014     Document Type: Article

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