Game-theoretic approach to tourism supply chain coordination under demand uncertainty for package holidays

Tourism Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 287-298

  Zhang, Xinyan ^a   Song, Haiyan ^a   Huang, George Q ^b   Chen, Wanli ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Demand uncertainty; Game theory; Package holidays; Supply chain coordination; Tourism supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870775481     PISSN: 10835423     EISSN: 19433999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108354210X12801550666024     Document Type: Article

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