A multi-criteria assessment of tourist farm service quality

Tourism Management

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 629-637

  Rozman, Črtomir ^a   Potočnik, Majda ^b   Pažek, Karmen ^a   Borec, Andreja ^a   Majkovič, Darja ^a   Bohanec, Marko ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b Department of Knowledge Technologies ^*  (Slovenia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

DEXi; Multi criteria modeling; Rural tourism; Service quality; Tourist farm

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RANKING; TOURISM MARKET; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 67349155605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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