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Acceptance of Tourist Accommodation Providers’ Sustainable Communication

By: Paulina Rutecka  
Open Access
|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijcm-2025-0018 | Journal eISSN: 2449-8939 | Journal ISSN: 2449-8920
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