A comparison of results of three statistical methods to understand the determinants of festival participants' expenditures

International Journal of Hospitality Management

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 297-307

  Kim, Samuel Seongseop ^a   Prideaux, Bruce ^b   Chon, Kaye ^c  

^a Sejong University   (South Korea)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Determinants; Expenditure; Festival; Logit; OLS; Tobit

Indexed keywords

EID: 74449089239     PISSN: 02784319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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