Evaluating tourist destination performance: Expanding the sustainability concept

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Luo, Wenbin ^a  

^a HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

4E framework; China; Destination performance; Influential factor analysis; Performance evaluation; Zhangjiajie

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION;

CHINA; HUNAN; ZHANGJIAJIE;

EID: 85042004568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su10020516     Document Type: Article

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