Identifying changes and trends in Hong Kong outbound tourism

Tourism Management

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1106-1114

  Law, Rob ^a   Rong, Jia ^b   Vu, Huy Quan ^b   Li, Gang ^b   Lee, Hee Andy ^a  

^a THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Association rules; Contrast analysis; Data mining; Hong Kong; Machine learning; Outbound tourism

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; POLICY MAKING; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 79955476447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2010.09.011     Document Type: Article

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