Golf tourists’ satisfaction: Hard-core versus recreational golf tourists

International Sports Events: Impacts, Experiences and Identities

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 127-140

  Moital, Miguel ^b   Dias, Nuno Ricardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b NONE

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EID: 85161244261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203131237-12     Document Type: Chapter

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