Holiday destinations: Understanding the travel choices of Irish tourists

Tourism Management

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 683-692

  Lyons, Sean ^a   Mayor, Karen ^a   Tol, Richard S J ^a,b,c,d  

^a ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demand modelling; International tourism; Ireland

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PROBABILITY; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349145535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2008.10.024     Document Type: Article

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