Representing tourists' heterogeneous choices of destination and travel party with an integrated latent class and nested logit model

Tourism Management

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1407-1413

  Wu, Lingling ^a   Zhang, Junyi ^a   Fujiwara, Akimasa ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Destination; Heterogeneity; Interdependency; Latent class model; Nested logit model; Travel party

Indexed keywords

GENDER; INCOME; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL TIME;

JAPAN;

EID: 79960322716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.01.017     Document Type: Article

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