Progress in tourism and destination wellbeing research
Current Issues in TourismPublished 25 August 2016Open access
Heather Hartwell, Alan Fyall, Cheryl Willis, Stephen J. Page, Adele Ladkin, Ann Hemingway
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Current Issues in Tourism on 25 August 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13683500.2016.1223609.
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