Competitiveness indicators in the travel and tourism industry

Tourism Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-43

  Gooroochurn, Nishaal ^a   Sugiyarto, Guntur ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Competitiveness Index; Confirmatory factor analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EID: 15044347793     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/0000000053297130     Document Type: Article

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