Rural destination development based on olive oil tourism: The impact of residents' community attachment and quality of life on their support for tourism development

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2017, Pages

  Campón Cerro, Ana María ^a   Folgado Fernández, José Antonio ^a   Hernández Mogollón, José Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attachment; Destination marketing; Food tourism; Olive oil tourism; Partial least squares (PLS); Quality of life; Residents; Rural tourism experiences; Support for tourism development; Sustainable destination management

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION;

SIERRA DE GATA; SPAIN;

EID: 85029531492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9091624     Document Type: Article

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