Small Island destinations and international tourism: Market concentration and distance vulnerabilities

Self-Determinable Development of Small Islands

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 159-178

  Ridderstaat, Jorge R ^a   Nijkamp, Peter ^b  

^a Central Bank of Aruba   (Aruba)

^b VU University   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distance; Market concentration; Small island destinations; Tourism; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050405143     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-0132-1_9     Document Type: Chapter

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