The Importance of Friends and Relations in Tourist Behaviour: A Case Study on Heterogeneity in Surinam

Tourism and Regional Development: New Pathways

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 219-238

  Poel, Pauline ^a   Masurel, Enno ^b   Nijkamp, Peter ^b  

^a ECORYS Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 85079310167     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315235967-13     Document Type: Chapter

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