Tourist preferences for rural house stays: Evidence from discrete choice modelling in Spain

Tourism Management

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 805-811

  Albaladejo Pina, Isabel Pilar ^a   Díaz Delfa, María Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mixed logit; Multinomial logit; Rural houses choice; Rural tourism; Stated preference

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; TOURISM; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MURCIA [SPAIN]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 69249222951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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