Cost efficiency of the lodging industry in the tourist destination of Gran Canaria (Spain)

Tourism Management

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 993-1005

  Pérez Rodríguez, Jorge V ^a   Acosta González, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Stochastic translog cost frontier; Tourism; Unbalanced panel data

Indexed keywords

PANEL DATA; STOCHASTICITY; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST DESTINATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAN CANARIA; LAS PALMAS; MACARONESIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33947572509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2006.08.007     Document Type: Article

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