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Teles, S., Sarmento, M., Matias, Á. (2009). Tourism and Strategic Competition in the Air Transport Industry. In: Matias, Á., Nijkamp, P., Sarmento, M. (eds) Advances in Tourism Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2124-6_16

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