Premium or discount in hotel room rates? the dual effects of a central downtown location

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 165-173

  Lee, Seul Ki ^a,b   Jang, SooCheong ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agglomeration; central business district (CBD); localized competition; room rates; spatial hedonic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859896265     PISSN: 19389655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1938965512441056     Document Type: Article

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