Modelling short-break holiday destination choices

Tourism Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 389-405

  Huybers, Twan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Destination choice; Discrete choice modelling; Implicit price; Market share; Nested logit

Indexed keywords

TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY;

EID: 0347269191     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000003322662989     Document Type: Article

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