A global benchmarking of the hotel industry

Tourism Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 811-821

  George Assaf, A ^a   Barros, Carlos Pestana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Global benchmarking; Hotel industry; Stochastic frontier

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BENCHMARKING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; LEISURE INDUSTRY; MODELING; TOURISM;

EID: 84883314838     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/te.2013.0230     Document Type: Article

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