The determinants of students' destination choice for their summer vacation trip

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 333-348

  Thrane, Christer ^a  

^a INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Destination choice; Multinomial logit regression; Students; Tourism

Indexed keywords

LOGIT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENT; TOURISM; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EID: 57749200730     PISSN: 15022250     EISSN: 15022269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220620802588797     Document Type: Article

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