Smart tourism destination triggers consumer experience: the case of Porto

European Journal of Management and Business Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 6-25

  Liberato, Pedro ^a   Alen, Elisa ^b   Liberato, Dalia ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Information and communications technologies; Smart destination; Tourism experience; Tourist behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044080581     PISSN: 24448451     EISSN: 24448494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EJMBE-11-2017-0051     Document Type: Article

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