African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4194

Full Length Research Paper

Employees’ satisfaction in travel agencies

Tamara Gajić1*, Bojana Kovačević1 and Mirjana Penić2
1Higer Business School for Professional Studies, Novi Sad, Serbia. 2University of Novi Sad, Department of Tourism and Hotel Management, Serbia.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Received: 18 November 2011
  •  Accepted: 28 February 2012
  •  Published: 31 July 2014

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