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Towards sustainable tourism development in a mature destination: measuring multi-group invariance between residents and visitors’ attitudes with high use of accommodation-sharing platforms

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Pages 520-537 | Received 13 Jul 2020, Accepted 24 Dec 2020, Published online: 15 Jan 2021

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