New frontiers in tourist behavior research: Steps toward causal inference from non-experimental data

Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 223-235

  Mazanec, Josef A ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Tourist behavior research

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34547549528     PISSN: 10941665     EISSN: 17416507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10941660701416796     Document Type: Article

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