The length of stay of tourists in Madagascar

Tourism Management

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1230-1235

  Peypoch, Nicolas ^a   Randriamboarison, Rado ^b   Rasoamananjara, Fy ^b   Solonandrasana, Bernardin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTANANARIVO   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Fractional polynomial survival model; Madagascar; Policy; Survival models

Indexed keywords

POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SURVIVAL; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST DESTINATION;

MADAGASCAR;

EID: 84859830383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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