Monitoring hotel performance

Journal of Asia-Pacific Business

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 51-66

  Avkiran, Necmi K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benchmarking hotels; Productivity analysis; Scale inefficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547261464     PISSN: 10599231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J098v04n01_04     Document Type: Article

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