Variety-seeking and inertial behaviour: The disutility of distance

Tourism Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 251-264

  Nicolau, Juan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Destination choice; Inertial behaviour; Mixed logit model; Tourist decision making process; Variety seeking

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION;

SPAIN;

EID: 77952767883     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000010790871999     Document Type: Article

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