Evaluation of agritourism activity in Italy: Facility based or local culture based?

Tourism Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 581-601

  Ohe, Yasuo ^a   Ciani, Adriano ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agritourism; Cultural heritage; Facility based activity; Hedonic pricing; Internalization of externalities; Ordered logit model

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CULTURAL HERITAGE; DEMAND ANALYSIS; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; INCOME; LOGIT ANALYSIS; PRICE DYNAMICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

ITALY;

HARNESS;

EID: 79959273302     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/te.2011.0048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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