An analysis of tourists' expenditure on winter sports events through the Tobit censorate model

Tourism Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1197-1217

  Barquet, Andrea ^a   Brida, Juan Gabriel ^a   Osti, Linda ^a   Schubert, Stefan ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biathlon World Cup; Tobit censorate model; Tourist expenditure; Visitor profiling

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; EXPENDITURE; INCOME; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPORT; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

EID: 84555196283     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/te.2011.0084     Document Type: Article

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