The economy, tourism growth and corporate performance in the Taiwanese hotel industry

Tourism Management

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 665-675

  Chen, Ming Hsiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Corporate performance; Economy; Factor analysis; Hotels; Panel regression; Tourism growth

Indexed keywords

FINANCE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; NATIONAL ECONOMY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SERVICE SECTOR; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

TAIWAN;

EID: 77951980956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2009.07.011     Document Type: Article

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