Measuring the cost efficiency of international tourist hotels in Taiwan

Tourism Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-85

  Wang, Fei Ching ^a   Hung, Wei Ting ^b   Shang, Jui Kou ^a  

^a JINWEN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b VANUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Cost efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; International tourist hotel; Tobit regression

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 33645413859     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000006776387150     Document Type: Article

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