A service quality measurement architecture for hot spring hotels in Taiwan

Tourism Management

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 429-438

  Hsieh, Ling Feng ^a   Lin, Li Hung ^a   Lin, Yi Yin ^a  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Analysis network process (ANP); Hot spring hotels; Service quality

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; SERVICE SECTOR; THERMAL SPRING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 38849183971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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