Tourists' length of stay: The case of international summer visitors to Norway

Tourism Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1069-1082

  Thrane, Christer ^a,b   Farstad, Eivind ^b  

^a INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

International visitors; Length of stay; Norway; OLS regression; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST DESTINATION;

NORWAY;

EID: 84867880477     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/te.2012.0158     Document Type: Article

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