Economic valuation of cultural heritage sites: A choice modeling approach

Tourism Management

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 213-220

  Choi, Andy S ^a   Ritchie, Brent W ^b   Papandrea, Franco ^c   Bennett, Jeff ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Choice modeling; Cultural heritage site; Mixed logit; Nonmarket valuation

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HERITAGE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HERITAGE TOURISM; LOGIT ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; TOURISM ECONOMICS; VALUATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 70449730268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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