Assessing the preference heterogeneity in marine ecotourism attributes by using choice experiment

International Journal of Economics and Management

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 367-384

  Yacoba, Mohd Rusli ^a   Shuibb, Ahmad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Conditional logit; Ecotourism; Interactions; Marine park; Mixed logit

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953604084     PISSN: 1823836X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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