Incorporating the rough sets theory into travel demand analysis

Tourism Management

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 511-517

  Goh, Carey ^a   Law, Rob ^a  

^a THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Continuous value discretization; Rough sets; Tourism demand; Volume of trade

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; TOURISM MARKET; TRADE FLOW; TRAVEL DEMAND;

EID: 0142009952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-5177(03)00009-8     Document Type: Article

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