Efficiency of the Malaysian hotel industry: A distance function approach

Tourism Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 721-732

  Saleh, Ali Salman ^a   Assaf, A George ^b   Nghiem, Hong Son ^c  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Distance function; Efficiency; Hotels; Malaysia; Stochastic frontier (SF)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874152131     PISSN: 10835423     EISSN: 19433999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108354212X13531051127186     Document Type: Article

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