Internal and locational factors affecting hotel industry efficiency: Evidence from Italian business corporations

Tourism Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 883-913

  Bernini, Cristina ^a   Guizzardi, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hotel industry; Inefficiency model; Italy; Panel data; Stochastic translog production function; Technical efficiency scores

Indexed keywords

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; COMPETITIVENESS; CORPORATE STRATEGY; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTICITY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

ITALY;

EID: 78649901096     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/te.2010.0008     Document Type: Article

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