The evaluation of tourism destination competitiveness by TOPSIS & information entropy - A case in the Yangtze River Delta of China

Tourism Management

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 443-451

  Zhang, Hong ^a   Gu, Chao lin ^b   Gu, Lu wen ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Information entropy weight (IEW); Negative ideal solution (NIS); Positive ideal solution (PIS); Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS); Tourism destination competitiveness (TDC); Yangtze River Delta

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; LOCATION-ALLOCATION MODEL; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RANKING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST DESTINATION;

CHINA; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 78649886203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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