Cultural Centre, Destination Cultural Offer and Visitor Satisfaction
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1. Park and Heritage Tourism and Destination’s Cultural Offer
2.2. Visitor Experience, Satisfaction and Cultural Offers
3. Methodology
3.1. Study Site
3.2. Online Data Collection
3.3. Data Analysis
4. Results
4.1. Correlation between Visitor’s Evaluation of the Cultural Centre and Overall Satisfaction
4.2. Negative Comments and Visitor Satisfaction
4.3. Dissatisfaction with Cultural Offers
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
Conflicts of Interest
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Zeng, B. Cultural Centre, Destination Cultural Offer and Visitor Satisfaction. Sustainability 2017, 9, 1984. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9111984
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