Estimating international tourism demand for selected regions in Sweden and Norway with iterative seemingly unrelated regressions (ISUR)

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 395-410

  Salman, A Khalik ^a   Arnesson, Leif ^a   Sörensson, Anna ^a   Shukur, Ghazi ^b  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Iterative Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (ISUR); Significant factors; Tourism demand

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; EXCHANGE RATE; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; PRICE DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT;

NORWAY; SWEDEN;

EID: 78650287984     PISSN: 15022250     EISSN: 15022269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15022250.2010.484221     Document Type: Article

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