Customer choice modeling in hospitality services: A review of past research and discussion of some new applications

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 470-478

  Verma, Rohit ^a  

^a and Design   (United States)

Author keywords

customer choice modeling; discrete choice analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649303676     PISSN: 19389655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1938965510378829     Document Type: Review

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