Measuring hotel performance using the integer DEA model

Tourism Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 867-882

  Wu, Jie ^a   Liang, Liang ^a   Song, Haiyan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Hotels; Integer data

Indexed keywords

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CORPORATE STRATEGY; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

TAIPEI; TAIWAN;

EID: 78649839979     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/te.2010.0015     Document Type: Article

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