Benchmarking the Asia Pacific tourism industry: A Bayesian combination of DEA and stochastic frontier

Tourism Management

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1122-1127

  George Assaf, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia Pacific; Efficiency; Empirical Bayes; Hotels; Tour operators; Tourism

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; SERVICE SECTOR; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURISM MARKET;

AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC RIM; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 84859835771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.11.021     Document Type: Article

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