Managing and marketing tourist destinations: Strategies to gain a competitive edge

Managing and Marketing Tourist Destinations: Strategies to Gain a Competitive Edge

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-263

  Kozak, Metin ^a   Baloglu, Seyhmus ^b  

^a MUGLA SITKI KOCMAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203842300     Document Type: Book

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