The efficiency of the hotel industry in Singapore

Tourism Management

Volumn 37, Issue , 2013, Pages 31-34

  Ashrafi, Ali ^c   Seow, Hsin Vonn ^b   Lee, Lai Soon ^a   Lee, Chew Ging ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^c SEMNAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hotel industry; Non radial data envelopment analysis; Slacks based measure

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; SERVICE SECTOR;

SINGAPORE [SINGAPORE (NTN)]; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84873282753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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