A newly developed integrated environment-quality approach for the design of hotel services

Progress in Industrial Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 251-271

  Raggi, Andrea ^a   Petti, Luigia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Industrial ecology; Lodging services; Quality Function Deployment (QFD); Tourism

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 33751294302     PISSN: 14768971     EISSN: 14788764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/PIE.2006.011132     Document Type: Review

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