Hotel guests' preferences for green guest room attributes

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 302-311

  Millar, Michelle ^a   Baloglu, Seyhmus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

conjoint analysis; green hotels; hotel guest preferences; LEED standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960316165     PISSN: 19389655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1938965511409031     Document Type: Article

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