Assessment of tourism competitiveness by analysing destination efficiency

Tourism Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 325-342

  Cracolici, Maria Francesca ^a,b   Nijkamp, Peter ^b   Rietveld, Piet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Destination competitiveness; Destination efficiency; Economic efficiency analysis; Etochastic production frontier

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; STOCHASTICITY; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 44649107798     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000008784460427     Document Type: Article

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