Scale and scope economies of international tourist hotels in Taiwan

Tourism Management

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-33

  Weng, Chih Chiang ^a   Wang, Kuo Liang ^b  

^a SHIH CHIEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Scale economies; Scope economies; Seemingly unrelated regression

Indexed keywords

ECONOMY OF SCALE; TOURISM;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN; WORLD;

EID: 27644498531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2004.05.008     Document Type: Article

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