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Tourism Planning & Development Volume 8, 2011 - Issue 2: RESEARCHING TOURISM ENTREPRENEURSHIP: MULTIPLE WORLDVIEWS, VOICES, AND TRUTHS
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Understanding Lifestyle Entrepreneurs and Digging Beneath the Issue of Profits: Profiling Surf Tourism Lifestyle Entrepreneurs in Ireland

Ben Marchant Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, IrelandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Ziene Mottiar Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland
Pages 171-183 | Published online: 09 Jun 2011

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