Analyzing tourists' length of stay at destinations with survival models: A constructive critique based on a case study

Tourism Management

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 126-132

  Thrane, Christer ^a  

^a INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Length of stay; Segmentation; Survival analysis; Tourists

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOURISM; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EID: 80052474610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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