Analysis of foreign tourism demand for Croatian destinations: Long-run elasticity estimates

Tourism Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 407-420

  Mervar, Andrea ^a   Payne, James E ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS   (Croatia)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ARDL; Cointegration; Croatia; Tourism demand

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; DEMAND ANALYSIS; DEMAND ELASTICITY; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; TOURIST DESTINATION;

CROATIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548046017     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000007781497764     Document Type: Article

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